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The '''Bean Blossom Festival''', later the '''Bill Monroe Memorial Festival''', was an early [[bluegrass music]] festival held annually in [[Beanblossom, Indiana]].<ref name="Ellison1995">{{cite book|author=Curtis W. Ellison|title=Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780878057221|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-0-87805-721-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780878057221/page/17 17]}}</ref> The Bean Blossom festival was known for its jam sessions including well-known bluegrass musicians.<ref name="RosenbergWolfe2007">{{cite book|author1=Neil V. Rosenberg|author2=Charles K. Wolfe|title=The Music of Bill Monroe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmiFb1e1Fm4C&pg=PA195|year=2007|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03121-2|pages=195–}}</ref>

==History==
The Bean Blossom Festival was founded in 1966 by [[Bill Monroe]], who is considered by many to be the originator of the bluegrass genre.<ref>[http://www.news-sentinel.com/news/state/Indiana-at-200--Bean-Blossom-is-synonym-for-bluegrass-in-Indiana "Indiana at 200: Bean Blossom is synonym for bluegrass in Indiana"]. ''News-Sentinel'', By Andrea Neal, November 15, 2016</ref>

In 1973, an album of live music, titled ''Bean Blossom'', was recorded at the festival.<ref name="RosenbergWolfe2007" /> By 1974, about 20,000 people were attending the festival each year.<ref name="Thomas1974">{{cite book|author=Bill Thomas|title=Tripping in America: off the beaten track|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEMIAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Chilton Book Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8019-5772-7|page=70}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Indiana Festivals|url=https://archive.org/details/indianafestivals00mann|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1976|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-14157-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/indianafestivals00mann/page/144 144]}}</ref>

Many well-known bluegrass musicians and bands have performed at the festival,<ref>[https://bluegrasstoday.com/bean-blossom-2015-day-4/ "Bean Blossom 2015 – Day 4"]. ''Bluegrass Today'', June 18, 2015 by Daniel Mullins </ref> including the [[Dry Branch Fire Squad]] in 1979.<ref name="Adler2011">{{cite book|author=Thomas A. Adler|title=Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festivals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UrgPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|date=15 May 2011|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-09544-3|pages=138–}}</ref>

By 1985, the Bean Blossom Festival was the biggest bluegrass festival in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Journal of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7HEJAQAAMAAJ|volume=10|year=1985|publisher=Country Music Foundation.}}</ref>

The festival hosts the induction ceremonies for Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame.<ref name="TitonCarlin2002">{{cite book|author1=Jeff Todd Titon|author2=Bob Carlin|title=American Musical Traditions: British Isles music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjLaAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Schirmer Reference|isbn=978-0-02-865489-8|page=134}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Bill Monroe Farm]]
* [[Bill Monroe Museum]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.beanblossom.us/ Bill Monroe Memorial Festival]

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[[Category:Music festivals in Indiana]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Brown County, Indiana]]
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[[Category:Bill Monroe|Memorial Festival]]

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