Embedded Files
Most of these interviews were conducted by me for research leading up to my 2011 book —
Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festivals
TEXT of INTERVIEWS
Baker, Kenny - 24 October 2000 - anecdotes and memories
Chapman, Bob - 2 August 2007 - tearing down the Jamboree barn in 1986
Cravens, Robert "Red" - 25 August 2003 - background, being at the "University of BG"
Duncan, Glen - 7 February 2004 - inspiration and fiddling with Bill Monroe
Doug Hutchens – 12 November 2005 -how he became a Blue Grass Boy
Leonard, Dave - 22 September 2012 - why the trees were whitewashed
McDonald, Jack - 22 September 2001 - Brown County Jamboree history
Monroe, Birch - 25 September 1977 - early days of the Jamboree
Rund, Letta Mae “Sandy” - 27 June 1999 - the Runds, the Jamboree in the 1940s
Smith, Hazel - 6 February 2004 - friendship with Bill Monroe and her sons Terry & Billy
Yates, Bill - 18 June 2005 - selling LPs at the music parks
The Old Brown County Jamboree Barn - 1977
(click on this picture for more photos and measured plan)
Working with a select committee of scholars and fans in 2016, I wrote the text of these Indiana historical highway markers, which are on Hwy. 135, just outside the music park.
Photos by Ken Hydinger, May, 2016.
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