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Daniel Mullins will be reporting from the 2015 Bean Blossom Festival all week, as Internet service in the campground allows. Check back each day for his reports and photos. Day 1 of the 49th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN was definitely a success. The world's longest running bluegrass festival, is [...]
This article is a contribution from Tom Feller. In addition to performing with Feller & Hill, Tom is an experienced studio engineer and live audio reinforcement specialist. He was inspired to write following this past week running sound at Bean Blossom. Touring bands may be wise to heed his advice. "Could I get just a [...]
Myron Dillman, 79, of Peru, Indiana, the father of Dwight Dillman, owner and operator of the Bean Blossom Bluegrass festivals, passed away on Sunday, November 3, while in St Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis. He was born on 17 June, 1934. He had been fighting cancer, widespread and inoperable, for many years. “Mr. D”, as Ralph Stanley [...]
Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent is back with a report on the big Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN. [jwplayer config="bgtnwm" mediaid="53105"]
I’m sure that everyone who made their way to Brown County, IN last week has had a great time at the longest running bluegrass festival in the world, Bean Blossom. I was able to attend on Saturday evening, and I was so glad I did! In addition to seeing great performances by Michael Cleveland & [...]
This report, and photos, from Bean Blossom 2012 are a contribution from MaryE Yeomans, who we hope will be a regular correspondent and photographer for Bluegrass Today. It’s a hot one here today, the eighth and final day of the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival just a few miles up the road from Nashville, [...]
When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970's, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live recording from the Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom festival, which became one of my favorites and a great source of material to learn from Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin, and many [...]
Darrell Webb has posted a video from backstage at Bean Blossom, where he and his band performed over the past weekend. In this report, Darrell and Carl White, fill-in Darrell Webb Band bass player and notorious Quicksilver drummer, talk about the history of the long-running festival, started by Bill Monroe, when one of Bill's Blue [...]
Tom Adler, author of Bean Blossom, last year's University of Illinois Press history of Bill Monroe's bluegrass festivals and the Brown County Jamboree, is featured in a new Q&A on the U of I web site. The subject of the interview is - you guessed it - the upcoming 2012 Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom [...]
Bean Blossom, that place of many legends that has attracted bluegrass fans from so many territories world-wide, that has two internationally-distributed LPs that bear its name and yet about which so little of its history has been known for so long. That is, until now, thanks to Thomas A Adler’s book Bean Blossom: The Brown [...]
