FreshGrass Awards
Congratulations to our 2025 FreshGrass Awards winners! Instrumentalist winners will each receive $2,500 in cash and instruments from Eastman (fiddle and mandolin) and Deering (banjo). And our band winner receives $5,000, a future slot at a FreshGrass event, and a recording session in Nashville with Compass Records!
🏆 Congrats to:
Band: The Cody Sisters
Mandolin Jean-Bapitiste Cardineau
Fiddle: Clara Rose
Banjo: Carson Moore
Big shoutout to all our talented finalists who also will be going home with cash prizes for how far they made it! The future of this music is in great hands.
The FreshGrass Awards celebrate and reward emerging artists who offer innovative interpretations of bluegrass and roots music traditions and take place each year at the Freshgrass Festival in North Adams, MA. With multiple categories and prizes totaling more than $30,000 cash each year — plus studio time at Compass Records for the Band winner — we’re proud that our awards are the most ambitious of their kind.
