FreshGrass Awards
Congratulations to DownRiver Collective for winning the 2025 FreshGrass | Bentonville Awards in the category of Band! They’ve won an additional $5,000, a future festival slot, and a day of recording at Compass Records in Nashville!
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 and Bentonville, AR. 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.
