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Our latest bluegrass bunkum
"Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is venerated, and rightly so, but most would agree that it plays a distant… emm, second fiddle as a bluegrass pilgrimage site to Rosine in rural Ohio County, Kentucky, childhood hometown of The Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe and location for the tranquil and brilliantly restored Old Homeplace in the captivating wooded hills of Pigeon Ridge. Rosine. It is the definitive bluegrass music mecca, and no mistake. Pull up a chair, get comfy, and join the two Daves – Jnr & Snr – as they recount their September 2016 trip to the bluegrass bonanza of Rosine, and a whole lot more Bill Monroe besides." >>> MORE
- Bill Monroe
OUR TOURS
Upcoming tours, 2021 and beyond (click on the graphic for more details)
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- David Pendley, mandolinist with The Kristy Cox Band
BLUEGRASS HISTORY / GIGS & FESTIVALS / TRAILS
Musings from the bluegrass past (History), the bluegrass crowd (Gigs/Festivals) and the bluegrass trail (#bluegrasstrails)
- Bluegrass History
- Bluegrass Gigs/Festival
- Bluegrass Trails
The Osborne Brothers | Hyden, KY | Bluegrass Trails
'There were/are signs on Osborne Brothers Way on the outskirts of the town commemorating Sonny and Bobby, born here in 1937 and 1931 respectively and still with us today, but nothing that said Osborne Brothers in the veritable ghost town of Hyden itself. Firmly on the bluegrass map, the town hosts a popular multi-day annual bluegrass festival, The Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival, at the town’s Bobby Osborne Pavilion. The festival started in 1994 as a benefit for the Thousandsticks Volunteer Fire Department and Hyden hosted its 25th festival in August of 2018. Festival weekend is probably as good a time as any to visit the town, and if doing so you should find it a livelier than how we found late on a mid-October afternoon.'
Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa | Ireland 2019
"Appaloosa, who, according to their website, are a ‘a group of seasoned musicians who play predominately original, contemporary and traditional Bluegrass music’, were formed in 2008 by Wayne Taylor after retiring from 21 years of service with Country Current, the US Navy’s renowned country-bluegrass ensemble. Wayne has shared a stage, and a song (‘Uncle Pen’ no less), with Bill Monroe (in 1995) and his two-decade-plus stretch with the Navy band, the last 9 of which were as band leader, saw him play for many a bigwig - heads of state, royalty and even 4 US presidents. But on this night, World Bluegrass Day 2019, he played for us, us and about 70 others in the Village Arts Centre in sleepy Kilworth, County Cork."
The Osborne Brothers | Hyden, KY | Bluegrass Trails
'There were/are signs on Osborne Brothers Way on the outskirts of the town commemorating Sonny and Bobby, born here in 1937 and 1931 respectively and still with us today, but nothing that said Osborne Brothers in the veritable ghost town of Hyden itself. Firmly on the bluegrass map, the town hosts a popular multi-day annual bluegrass festival, The Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival, at the town’s Bobby Osborne Pavilion. The festival started in 1994 as a benefit for the Thousandsticks Volunteer Fire Department and Hyden hosted its 25th festival in August of 2018. Festival weekend is probably as good a time as any to visit the town, and if doing so you should find it a livelier than how we found late on a mid-October afternoon.'
- Steve Martin
POSTS | RECENT & FEATURED
A selection of the most recent and featured posts
- Bill Monroe
THE MYGRASSISBLUE.COM GALLERY
Featured Image - September 2020 | Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Bluegrass Island 2017, Outer Banks, NC. (click on image to enter the mygrassisblue.com Gallery)
- Ricky Skaggs
