The European World Of Bluegrass Association

In May 1998 the first European World Of Bluegrass Festival was organized by the Netherlands Bluegrass Music Association, the NBMA Foundation. The idea was to bring together as many European Bluegrass bands, musicians and fans as possible and to form a strong European network. Many of the great European Bluegrass bands have visited and toured The Netherlands upon this initiative.  In February 2001, building on this wide network of European bluegrass bands, musicians and national Bluegrass Music Associations, the European World Of Bluegrass Association was born.
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The goal of the EWOB Association - a non-profit organization - is to unite and promote European Bluegrass in close cooperation with the national Bluegrass Music Associations in Europe - facilitating their important tasks - and other international Bluegrass Music Associations like the IBMA and the SPBGMA.
Membership is FREE and all actions should be based on a sponsored budget.

Products and services of the EWOB Association:

• The EWOB Website  - www.ewob.org - with information, photo's and bio's from all European Bands that want to be on it, with links to their own homepages. Also listed will be all national European bluegrass Music Associations with direct links to their Websites. (this site will be fully operational from the 15th of May 2001) The promotion of the European Bluegrass Music and it's bands and the European activities.

• A Bluegrass E- magazine all about the European Bluegrass scene, with news and views, the European bluegrass agenda, articles on bands and festivals and reviews of new and favorite CD's and video's, information about instruction for the Bluegrass instruments and information about the European Bluegrass instrument luthiers, etc. etc. The Bluegrass E-Magazine is open to all bluegrass musicians and fans. Contributions to the Magazine are welcome from everybody! Just mail them to the webmaster. The Bluegrass E-Magazine will be reviewed and updated  every two months, free for all to read and download. The use of the English language is preferred for our international audience.

• A survey on the history and development of bluegrass in Europe in close cooperation with the national Bluegrass Music Associations, bands and musicians, promoters and journalists. A questionnaire will be ready in mid May and will be available in 4 languages. The aim is that this work will result in a book on the history and the development of Bluegrass Music in the European Countries and it's place in the different cultures.

• Presenting of the yearly European Bluegrass Pioneer Awards upon nomination by the national Bluegrass Music Associations and the members of the EWOB Association, to the true European Bluegrass Pioneers.

• The organization of the yearly EWOB festival, like the one we have organized since 1998. It will be organized as a European Bluegrass Jamboree, open to all European Bluegrass Bands.

• The promotion of the European Bluegrass Bands and their music and of the European Bluegrass activities.

• The promotion of Bluegrass Music on a larger scale with a focus on the European youth.

• discount on bluegrass CD's and other Bluegrass related articles.

• The presenting of Annual Bluegrass Awards to the European Bluegrass bands, instrumentalists and vocalists to be nominated by the national Bluegrass Music Associations and the members of the EWOB Association.