Takarazuka

The Takarazuka Festival in Japan is recognized as the third oldest ongoing bluegrass festival in the world, after Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom and Ralph Stanley's Hills of Home Festival in McClure, Virginia.  The first festival was held on the stage of

Saburo and Toshio Watanabe celebrated their 45th anniversary hosting the Takarazuka festival in Sanda City, Japan this past weekend. The pair have run B.O.M. Service (Bluegrass and Old Time Music) in the nearby city of Hyogo since 1972, selling American and European bluegrass