Well-known bluegrass festival photographer Phil Zimmerman has just released a book “Bluegrass Time: A Musician’s Photographs of the Early Days of Bluegrass Festivals.”

It is being published by Greenwell-Chisholm Printing Co., of Owensboro, Ky.

Carlton Haney’s Roanoke Labor Day Bluegrass Festival is widely recognized as the first multiple day and band bluegrass festival. The event was held September 3–5, 1965, at Fincastle, Virginia, near Roanoke, VA.
In 1998, Haney was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum Hall of Honor.
The museum’s Web site’s description of Haney’s 1965 festival reads, [...]