• Photos from ROMP 2022

    Del McCoury Band at ROMP 2022 - photo by Alex Morgan Imaging Thanks to the folks at ROMP, the River of Music Party held each year in Owensboro, KY, we have some photos from last weekend to share, taken by Alex

  • Live From Here with Chris Thile at ROMP 2020

    ROMP 2020, Owensboro, Kentucky's River Of Music Party, has scored a major coup for the festival next summer. Chris Thile will be bringing his radio program, Live From Here, to broadcast live from the festival stage on June 27. Festival attendees

  • Photos from ROMP 2019

    This past weekend the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum’s 16th annual ROMP Festival was held along the river in Owensboro, KY. More than 26,500 people came out to enjoy the sun, the river, and the great music. The Hall

  • Monogram – There and Back Again

    This article is a contribution from Pepa Malina, fiddler with Monogram, perhaps the longest established bluegrass band in eastern Europe. He tells an agonizing story about the group attempting to visit the US this summer to perform at the ROMP festival

  • ROMP rocks out for the 13th time

    Hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Museum, ROMP Fest 2016 delivered another fine round of bluegrass music for its 13th year. The music and the weather in Owensboro, KY was best described as hot! Thursday music kicked off with two Hall