ROMP

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

ROMP, i.e., the River of Music Party, held annually in Owensboro, KY, has announced Birds of Prey as the winners of their 2022 Virtual Band Contest. The competition involves bluegrass bands submitting a live video of themselves, and then entreating

Our friends at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Museum are getting ready for voting to start next week in their first ever Virtual Band Contest. Bands from all across the US are submitting videos, with fan voting set to

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum and Jagoe Homes, both in Owensboro, KY, are hosting a Virtual Band Contest running from now through March of next year, in collaboration with the annual ROMP festival. The winner will get to

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

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

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

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

During last months ROMP festival in Owensboro, KY, several of the artists working the main stage slid over to a more secluded section of Yellow Creek Park to shoot a series of intimate video performances. The International Bluegrass Music Museum, who

Shelly Swanger was on hand at ROMP 2015, and just sent us these images from the festival.