Dailey & Vincent at the 2009 IBMA Awards. Photo by Dan Loftin, courtesy of Karen Byrd Public Relations.

Dailey & Vincent didn’t take home quite as many trophies as they did in their first year of eligibility, but the duo still played a strong hand at Thursday’s International Bluegrass Music Awards, taking home three honors. Their collection included a repeat as the genre’s Entertainer of the Year. The act also claimed Vocal Group of the Year and went home with Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year for “On The Other Side.” Dailey & Vincent earned seven awards at the 2008 ceremony.

“We’ll do our best to take [bluegrass] to the masses,” Darrin Vincent told the audience this week at the Ryman Auditorium, according to the Associated Press.

The duo is hardly alone, however, in presenting the idiom to the world. Dan Tyminski, who first came to prominence as a member of Alison Krauss + Union Station, grabbed a pair of trophies: Male Vocalist and Album of the Year, for Wheels. Michael Cleveland, front man for Flamekeeper, made off with three awards: The band took Instrumental Group and Instrumental Recorded Performance, for “Jerusalem Ridge”; while Michael was cited as the IBMA’s top fiddler. Dale Ann Bradley snared her third straight Female Vocalist award, and Steve Martin’s first musical project, The Crow, earned the comedian an award for Best Liner Notes and another for Best Graphic Design.

Dailey & Vincent appear Tuesday on the Grand Ole Opry, along with Craig Morgan, Hal Ketchum and the Charlie Daniels Band.

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