Earl Scruggs along with Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Jesse McReynolds, Mac Wiseman, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Osborne, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray, Kenny Baker, Curly Seckler, Everett Lilly, The Lewis Family, Bill Clifton, Rodney Dillard, Melvin Goins and Paul Williams.
It's going to be a show NOT TO MISS!
W H E R E I S I T ?Owensboro on Sept. 12-14 - To celebrate what would have been Bill Monroe's 100th birthday.
Celebrate
the life and music of William Smith Monroe, known as the Father of Bluegrass Music!
The International Bluegrass Music Museum will have the biggest birthday celebration ever, with concerts, films, a musical, exhibits, presentations, field trips and more! We'll commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of Bill Monroe with performances by every living, still-performing member of the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame, a one-of-a-kind concert experience that has never been presented before!
The approaching centennial of the birth of Bill Monroe, the "father of bluegrass music," is creating a lot of interest for the International Bluegrass Music Museum and business for Owensboro, KY and surrounding areas.
Every active member of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Fame will be performing in Owensboro on Sept. 12-14 to celebrate what would have been Monroe's 100th birthday. Other activities like a Mandolin Camp, films, exhibits and musicals will also be featured. (Click Here for more)
Ralph Stanley Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs, whose banjo work in Monroe's band in 1945 helped create the bluegrass sound, is scheduled to perform along with Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Jesse McReynolds, Mac Wiseman, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Osborne, Eddie Adcock, Tom Gray, Kenny Baker, Curly Seckler, Everett Lilly, The Lewis Family, Bill Clifton, Rodney Dillard, Melvin Goins and Paul Williams.
Monroe was born on a farm outside Rosine, Ky. - about 40 minutes from the museum - on Sept. 13, 1911. He died on Sept. 9, 1996, and is buried in Rosine Cemetery.
Other Hall of Fame members include:
Doc Watson J.D. Crowe
Mac Wiseman Curly Seckler
In June, the museum opened The Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit featuring artwork inspired by Monroe's music. It's available online at www.bluegrass-museum.org/general/centennialArtExhibit.php
Other Hall of Fame members include:
Bobby Osborne Everett Lilly
In September, The Bill Monroe Exhibit opened at the museum. It features the fiddle of his uncle, Pendelton Vandiver, who was immortalized in Monroe's classic, "Uncle Pen"; one of Monroe's mandolins; and the defaced headstock veneer from his 1923 F-5 Lloyd Loar mandolin along with some of Monroe's personal artifacts and clothing, records and photographs.
Other Hall of Fame members include:
Rodney Dillard Melvin Goins
Paul Williams Kenny Baker
Bill Clifton Tom Gray and Eddie Adcock
The Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit opens this September with artifacts donated by former members of Monroe's band - The Blue Grass Boys. Other bluegrass pioneers and former Blue Grass Boys will also be performing at the three-day Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration.
The museum's sixth annual Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp, scheduled for Sept. 9-11, is filling up fast as a result of the approaching centennial.
"We're already about half full," Gabrielle Gray, the museum's executive director, said of the 50 slots at the camp. "It's usually April or May before we start getting reservations. But we already have people, signed up from six countries including the U.S."
For information on any of the events included in the Monroe centennial, call the museum at (888) MY BANJO (692-2656) or check the website: www.bluegrass-museum.org.
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