Bean Blossom

The Price Sisters at the 2024 Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival - photo © Roger Black Noon on Wednesday (6/12) opened the 2024 Bill Monroe Bluegrass Music Festival at the Bill Monroe Music Park in Bean Blossom, Indiana. The festival started with a

Southern Legend at Bean Blossom '23 - photo © Charlie Herbst Many thanks to Charlie Herbst of Cape Girarduau, MO who shared these photos from the 2023 edition of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival. The four day festival ran from June 14-17

Logo design by Joshua Williams and Bree Fleming - photo by Amy Springer Talk about a bluegrass wedding! The upcoming nuptials between Megan Darby, Director of the bluegrass music program at Glenville State College in West Virginia, and Luke McKnight, grandson of

Very close friend of Bill Monroe's and Bean Blossom attendee for over 55 years, James 'Jim' Peva passed away on May 5, 2021. He was 92 years old.  James Richard Peva was born near Evansville, Indiana, on May 7, 1928, spending

In 2011 Bean Blossom historian Thomas A. Adler gave a presentation at the International Country Music Conference in Nashville, during which he spoke about the possible reasons why Bill Monroe bought the Brown County Jamboree site at Bean Blossom in

The iconic Bill Monroe Music Park and Campground, site of the long running Bean Blossom festivals in Indiana, has been purchased by a local family, determined to continue the music and upgrade the facilities, just as previous owners Dwight Dillman

For his whole career as a bluegrass entertainer, James King had devoted and very loyal fans who sang his praises. Much of that came from the way King inserted raw emotion into a song, but another part was from the

This article is a contribution from Tom Feller, one half of the bluegrass performing duo Feller & Hill, studio operator and musician, and a skilled and experienced live audio engineer. It's a follow-up to a piece he wrote in 2014 offering comments

This coming Saturday - June 11, 2016 - sees the commencement of the 50th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Music Festival; eight days of top quality bluegrass music at one of the most famous venues in the world, in

Our article on October 7 about the establishment of the Remembering Miss Dixie Committee in Nashville prompted the folks at the Bill Monroe Museum at Bean Blossom to share a photo of the gift that Dixie Hall left to them