Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News: Bean Blossom Memorial Brick Wall Project

BMNN wrote: on Aug. 11, 2009:
Sample Brick

Bean Blossom, IN -- The Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation has announced the Bean Blossom Memorial Brick Wall Project located at the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom, Indiana. In keeping with the goal of the Foundation, they are offering bricks for "adoption" to fans of the numerous Bean Blossom music festivals and the Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe. The memorial wall will be located near the famous Bean Blossom sign at the fork in the road near the music stage.

The fully tax deductible price will be $100 a brick this year, and includes custom engraving worded by the brick donor. Each brick will include 3 lines of text and 12 spaces per line. Once the wall goes up, the price will go up to $125 per brick due to the cost increase of engraving while the bricks are already in place. The bricks will be set in available areas at random.

A sample brick is shown above, however, the brick color may vary. Order forms and online orders are available at www.bbjfoundation.org or can be mailed to: BBJF, c/o Bill Monroe Music Park, 5163 North State Road 135, Morgantown, Indiana 46160. A pdf version of the order form can be downloaded here.

The Foundation has already received huge interest in the Bean Blossom Brick Wall project during the planning time and feels like fans and patrons of the park could also purchase these as for birthday, Christmas, Anniversary or other gifts.

The Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park & Campground is one of southern Indiana's finest and largest campgrounds. It is located on a 55-acre tract of land in the small town of Bean Blossom in beautiful and historic Brown County, Indiana. The historic music park boasts over 55 years of music and is the home of the Brown County Jamboree, the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Museum, and Bill Monroe's world famous Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. The campground has general camping, rustic log cabin rentals, fishing lake and an outdoor crafter's flea market open every weekend May-October.

Known as the Mecca of Bluegrass, the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground hosts the oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world. The Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground hosts approximately eight music events throughout the year. Including this year’s 43rd Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival that was featured in the May 2009 issue of "Our Brown County" magazine. That one event included 50 performing bands, instrument workshops, a bluegrass camp for kids and much more. Please visit the Bean Blossom website for more information.

The mission of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation is to preserve the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground and continue the Brown County Jamboree’s heritage of musical shows and the bluegrass music festivals established at Bean Blossom by the Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe. For more information, please visit the Foundation's website.

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