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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]
The New South is a bluegrass band formed in 1971 [1] by banjo player J. D. Crowe.Their first two albums, Bluegrass Evolution and the eponymous record known by the album number, "Rounder 0044", established them as a dominant force in bluegrass, though the two albums are wildly different.
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 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.
Kids always look forward to Uncle Bean and his balloon creations during Heritage Christmas in Greencastle. This year, they’ll find him at Friday Nights in the Square on Dec. 1 and 8. Holiday Sip ...
Hiking columnist Susan Anderson likes to visit Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve in winter to see things hidden by summer foliage.
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.
A Kirtland's snake found on a Sycamore Land Trust property near Bean Blossom Creek, showing off its pink belly. The snakes are the focus of a recent settlement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...