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Album of the Week #24 – Bean Blossom
I’m sure that everyone who made their way to Brown County, IN last week has had a great time at the longest running bluegrass festival in the world, Bean Blossom. I was able to attend on Saturday evening, and I was so glad I did! [...]
Bean Blossom 2012 report – New South reunion
This report, and photos, from Bean Blossom 2012 are a contribution from MaryE Yeomans, who we hope will be a regular correspondent and photographer for Bluegrass Today. It’s a hot one here today, the eighth and final day of the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass [...]
Bean Blossom – a first-timer’s visit
When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970′s, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live recording from the Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom festival, which became one of my favorites and a great source of material to learn from Bill [...]
Darrell Webb reporting from Bean Blossom
Darrell Webb has posted a video from backstage at Bean Blossom, where he and his band performed over the past weekend. In this report, Darrell and Carl White, fill-in Darrell Webb Band bass player and notorious Quicksilver drummer, talk about the history of the long-running [...]
Tom Adler talks Bean Blossom
Tom Adler, author of Bean Blossom, last year’s University of Illinois Press history of Bill Monroe’s bluegrass festivals and the Brown County Jamboree, is featured in a new Q&A on the U of I web site. The subject of the interview is – you guessed [...]
Bean Blossom – a second look
Bean Blossom, that place of many legends that has attracted bluegrass fans from so many territories world-wide, that has two internationally-distributed LPs that bear its name and yet about which so little of its history has been known for so long. That is, until now, [...]
Seckler to Monroe Hall of Fame
Curly Seckler will be inducted into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame, during the 37th annual Uncle Pen Days Festival, which takes place from Wednesday (9/21) through to Saturday (9/24) at the Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park, Bean Blossom, Indiana. The induction will take [...]
Lonesome River Band at Bean Blossom
Here’s another video from last week’s Bean Blossom festival in Indiana, shot by the good folks at Rural Rhythm Records. They had a crew on hand documenting the live audio recording for an upcoming Bill Monroe Tribute project, due later this year. This time it’s [...]
Yet more about Bean Blossom
As many will know, this past week Dwight Dillman has been presenting the 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival at the Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground in Brown County, Indiana. On Thursday (6/16) the Indiana public media TV station WTIU [...]
IIIrd Tyme Out at Bean Blossom
Rural Rhythm Records has released a pair of videos shot during the 2011 Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN where they are recording a new live album. The project will be a Bill Monroe tribute featuring a number of Rural Rhythm [...]
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