![]() ![]() They formed a band that played publicly for the first time on radio stations in Hammond and Gary and performed in traveling country music shows. But his story as a performer really began in Indiana.Īt age 18, Monroe moved to Whiting to join two of his older brothers working at the Sinclair Oil Refinery. ![]() “Most Hoosiers have never heard of Bean Blossom, but all the bluegrass people in the world know where it is, and a lot of them come to it,” says Jim Peva, historian for Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground and a longtime friend of Monroe.Īcclaimed as the “father of bluegrass” in his New York Times obituary, Monroe was born in 1911 in Kentucky and spent most of his career in Tennessee where he performed regularly on Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. (Woodstock, a one-time three-day rock ‘n roll concert, came two years later.) It’s just a notch in the road to motorists heading south from Indy on State Road 135 en route to the art colony at Nashville or Brown County State Park.īut to folks who know bluegrass, it’s Mecca - home to the nation’s oldest, continuously running bluegrass festival launched in 1967 by the legendary singer and mandolin-picker Bill Monroe. Before New York had Woodstock, Indiana had Bean Blossom. ![]()
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