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The Bean Blossom Festival was founded in 1966 by Bill Monroe, who is considered by many to be the originator of the bluegrass genre. [3] In 1973, an album of live music, titled Bean Blossom, was recorded at the festival. [2] By 1974, about 20,000 people were attending the festival each year. [4] [5]
In 1967, Monroe himself founded an annual bluegrass festival at Bean Blossom in southern Indiana, a park he had purchased in 1951, [1] which routinely attracted a crowd of thousands; a double LP from the festival featuring Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Lester Flatt, and Jim and Jesse was released in 1973.
Bean Blossom: MCA: 2 8002: Double album 1975: Bill Monroe & Doc Watson - Sings Country Songs: FBN: 210: 1976: Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival: Country Music Magazine: CM 1039: 1979: Bean Blossom ' 79: MCA: 3209: Reissued in Japan as MCA VIM 6222 1980: Radio Shows 1946-48: Country Canada: BGC 80: Canadian issue 1981: Orange Blossom Special ...
In late April 1963 he joined Bill Monroe for a performance with The Bluegrass Boys in Bean Blossom. [6] Monroe was also manager, in the early 1960s, of Bill Monroe's country music park, the Brown County Jamboree, in Bean Blossom, Indiana. On July 3, 1969, at the Smithsonian Festival of American Culture, Monroe performed with Bill and Charlie.
"Uncle Pen" is a song written and originally recorded by Bill Monroe. Besides Monroe, the song was recorded by Porter Wagoner in 1956, Goose Creek Symphony in 1971, Michael Nesmith of The Monkees in 1973 on his solo album Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash, and Ricky Skaggs in 1984. The song was Skaggs' ninth #1 single on the country chart.
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Monroe used to hear his uncle playing fiddle on the hilltop where he lived, while Monroe put away his mules at night. [1] He later said that Vandiver was "the fellow that I learned how to play from." [ 2 ] Vandiver played fiddle at local square dances and social events, and his nephew backed him up, playing mandolin. [ 1 ]
Hiking columnist Susan Anderson likes to visit Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve in winter to see things hidden by summer foliage.