“Bluegrass” as an American music genre is derived from Bill Monroe’s band, The Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939. For almost 30 years, Monroe hosted the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival on his property in rural southern Indiana. Despite Monroe’s death in 1996, the festival continues. The festival has a casual, camping-style atmosphere, but when Monroe was host, the father of bluegrass always dressed in his finest Grand Ole Opry duds for music sets in the woods.
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