Tag: Bill Monroe

Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation news

Rich Hersberger, the Secretary of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation (BBJF), has announced that the fund raising efforts to help buy…

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The Sunny Side Of Appalachia

West Virginia author B. L. Dotson-Lewis has published her third book on the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The…

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Top stars to honor Bill Monroe

Some of bluegrass music’s top present-day stars will honor Bill Monroe on September 30 in the annual Bill Monroe Bluegrass Celebration,…

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New Bill Monroe book

September is very significant in the life of Bill Monroe, inasmuch as it is the month when he was born (September…

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Father Of Bluegrass Music on DVD

Some of our readers may have seen a video documentary on Bill Monroe in the mid 1990s called Bill Monroe –…

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Bill Monroe Mandolin Update

Monroe’s mandolin is still housed in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. If it is to stay there, the…

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Bill Monroe and Ibanez mandolins

We’ve been in contact this past weekend with the administrators of a new web site devoted to the Ibanez mandolins made…

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Fate of Monroe’s Mandolin still uncertain

The Tennessean is reporting this morning on the terms of a settlement between MTSU and the estate of Bob McLean. As…

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Kudos to Bean Blossom

This past weekend’s USA Weekend, a magazine supplement to many of America’s weekend newspapers, has, as its feature article, an assessment…

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Own a piece of bluegrass history…

Check your closets, everybody. If you can scrape together $49,000, you can purchase a 1965 tour bus previously owned by Bill…

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