Bluegrass Unlimited Celebrates the IBMA Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2025

Featuring The Bluegrass Cardinals, Hot Rize and Arnold Shultz Whenever I have interviewed bluegrass musicians who were born and raised west of the  Mississippi River, not only do I tend to ask them about the bluegrass scene in their part of the world, I also ask them if they felt like they grew up far away from the region of the country that was considered to be Ground Zero for the bluegrass genre.  Many times, the answer is usually yes, as musicians distinctly remember making that trek to Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, or the Baltimore-Washington DC area for the first time, or they eventually made the move and came east to stake their claim. The Bluegrass Cardinals When it came to the true life story of Don Parmley, however, the patriarch of the Bluegrass Cardinals, one of the newest bands to be inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame in 2025, he did the opposite. Born in Monticello, Kentucky, in 1933, in the central/southern part of the state, he began to pl