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43rd Annual

Hall of Fame Uncle Pen Days Festival

September 20 – 23, 2017

The Bill Monroe’ s Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Uncle Pen Days Festival will take place in Bean Blossom over four big days, September 20 – 23, 2017. The festival features more than 30 bands and includes a Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday.

This is the 43 rd fall festival honoring Bill Monroe’ s mentor Uncle Pendleton“ Pen” Vandiver. Monroe lived with his Uncle Pen as a teenager after his parents died and was influenced by Pen’ s huge repertoire of fiddle tunes.
Bill Monroe, the father of Bluegrass music, established his Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 1992 as a tribute to the musicians who helped to develop and disseminate the music that he originated. This year’ s inductee is Tony Rice. Tony Rice is a master of the guitar. Born in Virginia in
photos of The Grascals and Tony Rice by Cindy Steele
1950, his career has taken chances and grown through decades of playing with the best including Allison Krauss, who considers Rice her greatest mentor. Though his career did not bring him a rock star fortune, his influence in progressive bluegrass and acoustic guitar are now part of the mythology of the genre and the instrument.
Rice started in his first band at around 12. His big break came when he moved to Louisville, Kentucky to join the Bluegrass Alliance in 1970. He played with Sam Bush and J. D. Crowe, pushing bluegrass in new directions.
He later relocated to be a part of David Grisman’ s band. This was a harmonic stretch from the idiom he’ d just left and involved lessons in theory and sight reading. The collaboration produced notable jazzy and bluegrass

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