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Del McCoury on Best Of Bluegrass
This weekend’s edition of Best Of Bluegrass, airing on Radio Bluegrass International (RBI), has something special in store for all you Del-heads out there. Host Bob Mitchell tells us that he has just over an hour dedicated to Del McCoury, starting with a 30 minute audio [...]
Darrell Waltrip, pickin’ and singin’
The overlap between the bluegrass and NASCAR audience is one we have mentioned in the past, and given the size of the racing scene, bluegrass is always happy to get some attention from the motorsports community. Just last week, the folks in Owensboro, KY took [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Aieieee! ROMPSQUATCH
The guys in Monroeville have put together a clever video to promote the International Bluegrass Music Museum’s annual ROMP festival in Owensboro, KY, the original home of the IBMA. It details their hunt in the Kentucky hills for the elusive ROMPSQUATCH. Funny stuff.
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 [...]
IBMM moving to Nashville?
Over the weekend, I picked up a couple of startling news stories coming out of Owensboro, KY. The mayor, Ron Payne, was quoted speaking about the possibility of the International Bluegrass Music Museum moving from Owensboro to Nashville, unless $3 million in funding is approved [...]
More Bearfoot in the schools
The International Bluegrass Music Museum sent along another set of photos from Bearfoot’s two week residency at the museum in Owensboro, KY. The guys and gals were in town to give presentations to school kids in Western Kentucky, something for which they all have a special [...]
Bearfoot in residence at IBMM
Bearfoot spent last week in Owensboro, KY, where they will be this week as well, serving as Artists In Residence with the International Bluegrass Music Museum. During this time they will perform at 22 nearby elementary schools, giving the students a chance to hear bluegrass [...]
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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