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The annual event was a traditional bluegrass festival dedicated to preserving bluegrass music. After 1998, the festival consisted of three stages of music and incorporated a music camp designed to teach bluegrass music to school-age children. In 2007 the festival received the International Bluegrass Music Association's Event of the Year award ...
The annual Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival continues June 8 and 9, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with artists, merchants, food, drink and merriment. 955 Elm St. in Eminence, Ky. $15-$85. kyrenfaire.com
Music at the farm Bluegrass Festival Gunderinseli Thun Switzerland [46] - Athy Bluegrass Festival Athy Ireland [47] Ireland's oldest annual Bluegrass event, established 1991 Americana Festival Newark United Kingdom [48] UTV Country Fest Aura Complex Letterkenny, Donegal Ireland [49] - Nääsville Bluegrass Festival Frölunda Sweden [50] Risor ...
The Bill Monroe Farm is a historic farm attributed to being the birthplace of Bill Monroe, creator of the bluegrass music genre. The farm is 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) and is located near Rosine in Ohio County, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [2]
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Felipe Dieppa never thought he would set foot in Kentucky. A native of Queens, N.Y., he had a successful career as a child actor, originating the voice of Diego on the animated series “Dora the ...
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.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...