We know a lot of our readers didn’t have the opportunity to attend this year’s IBMA Awards Show in Nashville. We blogged it live, it was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, but there was no television coverage of the event. If you weren’t there, you didn’t get to see all the bluegrass stars shining in their best dress for bluegrass’ biggest night.

A few weeks before the event, Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, approached us with the idea of doing a Red Carpet event and offering the video footage here on The Bluegrass Blog. We loved the idea, and so did all the bluegrass artists who stopped by our red carpet during the pre-show reception.

Each day this week we’ll be publishing another episode of the Red Carpet videos. Here’s the first installment…

This video is brought to you in part, by Huber Banjos.