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Rural Rhythm Records has announced the release of Bill Monore 100th Celebration Live At Bean Blossom recorded this past June at the Bill Monroe Music Park in Bean Blossom, Indiana during the annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Last Sunday, the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Renfro Valley, Kentucky, hosted a [...]
Patuxent Music have released a Frank Wakefield’s tribute album to Bill Monroe. Franklin Delano Wakefield was born on June 26, 1934 in Emory Gap, Tennessee. Frank began to play harmonica and guitar as a young child. Meanwhile, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys were creating a new, exciting brand of country music built around [...]
Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Bill Monroe’s birth and there has already been a number of CD tributes to the Father of Bluegrass Music and no doubt others to follow. But when listeners turn to Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe–released digitally in September with [...]
Here is a great photographic exhibition and article by Jason Cherkis on the Washington Post Lifestyle website commemorating the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe centenary and heralding his legacy as larger than life. He sets out to ascertain how the music in Kentucky is doing without Bill Monroe. I had come looking for Bill Monroe, [...]
With Body And Soul and Let The Light Shine Down. Two separate discs paying tribute to Monroe’s secular and gospel catalogs are set to arrive on 23rd August, 2011. With Body And Soul and Let The Light Shine Down feature a total of 34 cuts, some previously unissued, as well as notes by distinguished writer [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is in the final stages of completing a full-length documentary video about Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of his birth on 13th September, 1911. To accomplish this goal, the Museum is reaching out to fans of bluegrass music and music lovers everywhere. [...]
Rounder Records is set to release the Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration a Classic Bluegrass Tribute on 23rd August, this year. Bill Monroe was both the father of bluegrass music and one of the genre’s most prolific writers, with a legacy that remains a benchmark for instrumentalists and vocalists alike. Monroe created a distinctive music, a [...]
University of Illinois Press – Music in American Life Series. Writer Thomas A. Adler’s gives us a long look back at the home of legendary bluegrass festivals and jamborees. Bean Blossom, Indiana – near Brown County State Park and the artist-colony town of Nashville – Indiana is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, [...]
Rural Rhythm Records has confirmed the live album recording during the 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. This 8-day event began today and runs through June 18, 2011. With over 50 bluegrass bands performing during the [...]
The 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival is scheduled for 11th to 8th June this year will feature a Live Album Recording by Rural Rhythm Records to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bill Monroe’s birth. The 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival will be held at the Bill Monroe [...]
Renetta Romero from the Ohio County Tourism Commission is seeking input for the development of an Ohio County Cookbook. As part of the Bill Monroe 100th Celebration, Ohio County Tourism is putting together a cookbook that will be sold this US summer. The theme will be Commemorating our Bluegrass Heritage with Bluegrass Friends from around [...]
Award-Winning Musicians Come Together to Honor the Father of Bluegrass People from all over the world will be honoring Bill Monroe this year by celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. Rural Rhythm Records has announced the first of their numerous project releases honoring The Father of Bluegrass music. On Tuesday, 25th January 2011, the [...]
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