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American Songwriter’s Bluegrass Moment
The May/June issue of American Songwriter magazine has a lot to offer bluegrassers, although not on the songwriting front. The country music issue is filled with insights about Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers, Dierks Bentley and the man himself, Bill Monroe. I know what [...]
Curtis Blackwell Band to tour Ireland
Former Blue Grass Boy Curtis Blackwell has announced plans to tour Ireland in June 2012. The tour will include eleven shows in twelve days, most of which it appears are being held in community Arts Centres. (It’s wonderful to see how Ireland values traditional music in [...]
Blue Moon Of Kentucky movie news
The bluegrass world has been abuzz since it was announced that a biopic is going to be made about the life of Bill Monroe. Movies about music stars’ lives have proved very successful, and I hope Bill’s will follow in the same fashion. In the [...]
RBI retells Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration
On Sunday (4/8), Best Of Bluegrass on Radio Bluegrass International will air a special program recalling the Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY in September 2011. The show airs from 4:00-6:00 p.m. (EDT), streamed live from the IBMM web [...]
Blue Yodel #24 – Moonwalking with Big Mon
Let me say up front that this article is not about a night I had on the dance floor in the 80s with the father of bluegrass. It’s about remembering lyrics, but would you have started reading something called “Fun with Memorization”? Last year I [...]
Photos of Pendleton Vandiver surface
The International Bluegrass Music Museum has acquired a pair of rare photos of Pendleton Vandiver, Bill Monroe’s legendary Uncle Pen, whose fiddle playing was famously remembered in the Monroe song by that name. Big Mon was quoted frequently as saying that Vandiver’s fiddle style, which Bill [...]
Footprints in the Snow
One of the classic Bill Monroe songs of all time is Footprints in the Snow. Despite the fact that Bill claimed authorship under the pseudonym Rupert Jones, the song was much older. According to Neil Rosenberg, Bill learned it in the early 1930s when he [...]
2012 Bill Monroe calendar
OK… so it’s 6 weeks late. But even a 46 week calendar with brilliant images of Bill Monroe is still something bluegrass fans can cherish, yes? If so, you’re in luck. Noted Nashville photographer Charmaine Lanham has produced a beautiful calendar featuring a dozen of [...]
IBMM honors The Godfather
And we’re not talking pizza, or anyone in the Corleone family. The International Bluegrass music Museum has announced a partnership with the H.L. Neblett Community Center in Owensboro for the Arnold Shultz String Music Project. Shultz was a musical contemporary of Bill Monroe, who Monroe had claimed [...]
Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered in Boston
Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro KY, made a fund raising visit to the Northeast, showing a clip of IBMM’s documentary film Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered, in the Boston suburb of Brookline Monday evening Jan. 9 2012. Gabby’s [...]
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