INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival, the nation’s longest-running bluegrass festival, returns June 17-20 to Bill Monroe’s Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom, Indiana. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival, the nation's longest-running bluegrass festival, returns June 17-20 to Bill Monroe's Music Park & Campground in Morgantown, Indiana. The ...

Every year in June, thousands of people from across the country make their way to a small Indiana burg for the oldest continuously running bluegrass festival in the world, Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom ...

With his mandolin playing and his high, lonesome tenor voice, Bill Monroe gave birth to the bluegrass genre. More of an alchemist than an ordinary musician, Monroe fused gospel harmonies and Celtic ...

Contemporary bluegrass titan Ricky Skaggs gives credit where it’s due. “I don’t know how I could extract the influence of Bill Monroe’s music from what I play today… He is the one constant that I ...

"The Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe, the acclaimed musician credited with founding the genre of bluegrass music, spent a chunk of his youth developing his sound at venues around Northwest Indiana ...