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France Bluegrass Musique Association
FBMA is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote Bluegrass music in France. We do this by giving information about Bluegrass activities, creating opportunities to help musicians and fans meet and by helping individual initiatives related to Bluegrass events.
Main activities include a two-monthly newsletter "Bluegrass!", the organisation of the spring and winter Bluegrass weekends, a mail order service for French bands' cds and this web site.


Members get several benefits that include :

  • The bi-monthly newsletter delivered to your home,
  • Free ads in the newsletter,A free link to your website (band or commercial activity) from this site
  • Possibility to sell your cds through or mail order service (2 band musicians must be members),
  • Reduced entry prices to concerts organised by FBMA,
  • No charge for organisation of Bluegrass weekends (5 euros for non-members)

To find out more please contact (in English or French) the association's president :

To Join
We currently have about 150 members, if you wish to join them fill in this form and send a check for 16 euros made out to FBMA to
Guy Mutel, Les Moutrets, 71440 Juif, France

Main Bluegrass in events in France
Information about these events, that happen every year, can be found on this site and in the newsletter "Bluegrass!"
To see pictures of these events, click here.

Spring Bluegrass Weekend (Whitsun).
Organised by FBMA about an hour south west of Paris, some 80 musicians get together to jam and discuss Bluegrass, Old Time and other related styles of music.
Bands get organised during the weekend to present an informal concert to other residents of the centre on the last evening in the magnificent theatre.
Cost is about 30 euros a day for full board plus 5 euros contribution to expenses for non-members.

Winter Bluegrass Weekend (November).
Organised by FBMA on a three-day weekend in November in Vichy (in the centre of France), this event was first held in response to musicians who wanted a place to meet and play during winter.
Regular bands can play in the fine theatre to a paying public (entry is free to members) and an informal concert is also organised in the "Cabaret" of the centre.
Cost is about 35 euros a day for full board plus 5 euros for non-members.

La Grange Rouge (2nd weekend in June).
The Grange Rouge is a cultural and artisanal association based in an old 18th century barn in the area of Macon, Bourg-en-Bresse, Louhans (about 3 hours south of Paris).
Every year they organise a musical happening for French traditional and Bluegrass music where bands can play in this beautiful setting.
Accommodation is possible in the farmhouse "gite" or on the adjacent campsite.
See photos.


Festival "Country Rendez-Vous" de Craponne (last weekend in July).
The biggest country music festival in France (which also showcases some great Bluegrass bands) is also an opportunity for Bluegrass fans to meet on the camp site to listen and play in a great "festival" atmosphere"