3 years ago my wife, Jen and I, along with our 10-month old daughter Ava in tow, attended our first bean blossom festival. For that matter it was really our first bluegrass festival ever. From day 1, I was hooked.
My Dad had invited us to come and camp with them for 3 days. Both my [...]

Col. Jim and Ailene Peva at Uncle Pen Days 2007 - photo by Rickey Lamb
Col. Jim Peva considers The Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground in Bean Blossom, Ind., to be hallowed ground in the great realm of bluegrass music.
And he wants it to remain that way.
Peva, considered one of the great historians of [...]

Larry Stephenson
New faces will join the lineup of staples at the 42nd annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival to be held in Bean Blossom, Ind., in June 2008, according to a tentative lineup that’s already being advertised. Among the notable new acts will be The Dailey Vincent Band, featuring Jamie Dailey, a veteran of [...]

By Rickey Lamb
A commentary
Some of my greatest memories as a young man growing up in southern Indiana were of my Dad and me, traveling the hills of Brown County in an old one-ton International truck. It would be loaded with watermelons, cantaloupes and sweet corn from the family farm. Our destination would be Short’s market [...]

A veritable flotilla of golf carts hugs the shade during an afternoon concert in mid-September at the Uncle Pen Days festival in Bean Blossom, Ind. The campground at the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Park was nearly filled to capacity during the four-day festival, which was blessed with rain-less, ideal but warm weather. photo by [...]