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The song is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002, Monroe's version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry . In 2003, CMT ranked "Blue Moon" number 11 in its list of 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
On April 29, 1953, Garland headlined a Kentucky Derby week appearance in Lexington, Kentucky, named "The Bluegrass Festival" where she sang the song "My Old Kentucky Home", accompanied by a single violin. [50] In 1940, Bing Crosby sang "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!"
Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07117-4; Ewing, Tom. 2018. Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-04189-1; Erbson, Wayne. 2003 Rural Roots of Bluegrass: Songs Stories and History : Native Ground Music. ISBN 1 ...
The 100th Army Band has performed the National Anthem and Kentucky State Song, "My Old Kentucky Home," for the opening session of the Kentucky State Senate for several years. [6] 2015 annual training, Fort McCoy WI. The 100th Army Band executed 21 performance missions in a nine-day period. Bands of America Grand National Championships, November ...
The Music of Kentucky is heavily centered on Appalachian folk music and its descendants, especially in eastern Kentucky. Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in the Ohio County community of Rosine, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.e., Kentucky.
The festival took place the first full weekend of June each year from 1974 until 2019. The Festival of the Bluegrass helped shape the early bluegrass festival culture. [1] The Cornett family of Georgetown, Kentucky, began the festival in 1974 [2] with The Festival of the Bluegrass, which was named by Raymond K. McLain. The first festival stage ...
Kentucky's flag has a navy blue background with the Seal of Kentucky in the middle. 1928 [2] [3] Latin motto: Deo gratiam habeamus "Let us be grateful to God" 2002 — [4] Motto: United we stand, divided we fall: 1942 — [4] Nickname: The Bluegrass State The bluegrass that grows in the state's pasture land Traditional — [5] Seal: The Seal of ...
Charlie Monroe was born on his family's farm in Rosine, Kentucky; he was the older brother of the mandolin player Bill Monroe. His sister Bertha also played guitar, and brother Birch , fiddle. Charlie, Birch , and Bill played together as a band in the middle of the 1920s, and played on radio starting in 1927.