World of Bluegrass 2016

All bios were already submitted to IBMA several weeks ago.

Thomm Jutz is a Nashville based songwriter, producer and guitar player. His songs have been recorded by John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Junior Sisk, Balsam Range, Chris Jones and many more. In 2016 Jutz had four number one Bluegrass songs and thirteen songs that charted in the Top 20... Read More →

Latrobe, Pa., native Irene Kelley discovered her flair for songwriting as a teenager and soon found her way to Nashville, Tenn., where her songs were quickly noticed and recorded by Carl Jackson, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White. While recording an album for MCA and independently releasing... Read More →

Multi-instrumentalist Milan Miller may joke that he first moved to Nashville because he “heard they were running out of guitar players,” but with light speed picking and his trusty tenor voice, Miller quickly became a first call sideman and collaborator. Traveling the world, he... Read More →

Shane Thompson, a 25-year veteran of the Music Industry, started his career as an artist with a four-year stint as the youngest member of the world-famous Renfro Valley Barn Dance. In 1998, Shane made the move to Nashville and was signed as a staff writer, later becoming Creative... Read More →