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Garcia was an avid banjoist, who even journeyed east from the Bay Area to seek out bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Jim & Jesse, The Osborne Brothers and more and first met his later musical collaborator David Grisman on this trip in 1964 at a Sunset Park bluegrass festival in West Grove, Pennsylvania.
May 28, 2024 · Located on the Ohio River 35 miles northwest of Rosine, the small farming community that produced the bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, the museum’s readily available instruments and neighborly...
May 3, 2024 · Way before the Dead — before any of the melodic chaos and intrinsic beauty of what that band created onstage any given night for its 30-year tenure — there was Garcia himself, simply a huge bluegrass freak who, perhaps someday, would become a member of Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys.
Mar 28, 2024 · The opening weekend of Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey Exhibition at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum launches with an immersive experience of exhibition tours, live music, historic panel discussions, and more to celebrate the bluegrass career of music icon, Jerry Garcia.
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Mar 28, 2024 · It’s been widely said that one of Garcia’s tightly held aspirations as a young musician was to one day become a member of Bill Monroe’s band, the Blue Grass Boys.
Apr 3, 2024 · Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey | Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum. A pivotal moment that is highlighted in the exhibit is Garcia’s cross-country road trip in 1964 where he headed east to find and learn from his bluegrass heroes such as Bill Monroe and The Osborne Brothers.
Jerry Garcia’s magnetic influence on bluegrass music – and indeed his early obsession with the genre – has finally been formally recognised with the opening of a new exhibit dedicated to Garcia at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky.
