September 27, 2024 — Mountain Home Music Company congratulates Sister Sadie founding member Deanie Richardson who was named Fiddle Player of the Year at last night’s International Bluegrass Music Association Awards. This is Richardson‘s second time winning the award, with her first coming in 2020.
”I was not expecting this at all,” Richardson said as she accepted her award. “I grew up playing fiddle with my grandfathers and I never expected to even be in the same room as all of you. I get to make a living playing my fiddle — but more than anything, I get to play bluegrass music, and that’s what I love so much. I just can’t say enough about growing up in Nashville, Tennessee. I used to go to the Station Inn and see Mark O’Connor and Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas and Bela Fleck — and I just never dreamed I’d get to be up here with all of you. Thank you!”
Richardson‘s band, Sister Sadie, released their latest song today. Listen to “All Will Be Well” HERE.
About Sister Sadie
Sister Sadie, which launched in the wake of an ostensibly one-off show at Nashville’s World Famous Station Inn in 2012, has both embraced and transcended its all-female identity, earning acclaim that includes being named as the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year in 2020, as well as Vocal Group of the Year in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Members range from acclaimed veterans to rising newcomers, who have won individual recognition, too, with founding member and fiddle player Deanie Richardson named as Fiddle Player of the Year in 2024 and banjo player/vocalist Gena Britt — SPBGMA’s reigning Banjo Player of the Year — having participated in three award-winning collaborative projects.The lineup is rounded out by 2024 IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year and Mountain Home recording artist Jaelee Roberts (guitar), Dani Flowers (vocals and guitar), bassist Maddie Dalton, winner of one of IBMA’s Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year Awards in 2023, and mandolinist Rainy Miatke. The band’s previous release, Sister Sadie II, earned them a GRAMMY nomination for Best Bluegrass Album in 2019.