Tag: Bill Monroe

You could own Bill Monroe’s wrench

Last July we reported on an estate sale in Gallatin, Tennessee, where almost one thousand items once owned by either Bill…

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Our Top 10 bluegrass songs for Christmas

We’ve carved the turkey. We’ve packed up the leftovers, and got them back out fifteen minutes later to finish off. We’ve…

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On This Day #47 – Bill Monroe

On this day 20 years ago Bill Monroe passed away. On September 9, 1996, Bill Monroe, the acknowledged Father of Bluegrass…

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Fundraising begins for Bill Monroe Museum

Rosie, KY has been selected as the future site of a Bill Monroe Museum, just a short distance from where the…

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Butch Robins to Bill Monroe HOF

Butch Robins, banjo player with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys from 1977 to 1981, has been announced as the 2016 inductee…

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Bill Monroe Estate Sale this weekend

Fans of the one-and-only Bill Monroe will have a unique opportunity over the next few days to obtain memorabilia belonging to…

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50 Years of Bean Blossom

This coming Saturday – June 11, 2016 – sees the commencement of the 50th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Music…

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Banjo added to the Monroe Mandolin Camp

The horrors! Slobbering five-stringers have been invited to drool all over the proceedings at this year’s Monroe Mandolin Camp in Nashville….

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Jimmy Maynard passes

Jimmy Maynard, a Blue Grass Boy in the early to mid-1960s, passed away on Tuesday morning, December 15, 2015, at his…

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Johnny Montgomery passes

Johnny Thelbert Montgomery, bass player with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, passed away on September 4, 2015, in Watertown (part of…

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