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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 is best known as the home of the Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground, a 55-acre (220,000 m 2) wooded campground which for more than 60 years has hosted music performances (mostly country and bluegrass), [citation needed] first at the Brown County Jamboree barn and currently at outdoor stages. [7]
The 59th annual Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival, slated for June 12-15, is open each day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Performers include Russel Moore and Illryd Tyme Out, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Ralph ...
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.
Two music festivals in Brown County park offer 12 days of music performances, workshops as well as camping.
Audio: Butch wins Bean Blossom banjo contest in 1969; Videos: Butch playing at Tex Logan's 85th birthday 2012; Smith, Richard D.: Can't You Hear Me Callin' - The Life of Bill Monroe, Little, Brown and Company, (2000) Adler, Thomas A.: Bean Blossom, University of Illinois Press, (2011) Ledgin, Stephanie P.: