Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground has been hosting live blues since 1999. The first Bean was held June 11 - 13, 1999 by John Hall who decided to throw a party in the woods of Brown County, Indiana for his harmonica customers. In 2020, COVID 19 took us on an unexpected hiatus from live […]

Founded in 1974, Uncle Pen Days began as a tribute to Bill Monroe's maternal uncle, James Pendleton Vandiver. "Uncle Pen" played the fiddle and Monroe later said that he was the "fellow that I learned to play from." Bill Monroe's parents had both died by the time he was 16, and Monroe lived part of […]