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Monroe, Bill (1911-1996) Summary
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Seldom can a particular genre of music be credited to the vision and influence of a lone individual as is the case with Bill Monroe and Bluegrass. In a career spanning over half a century, "The Father of Bluegrass" created, popularized,...
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Monroe, Bill
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(born Sept. 13, 1911, Rosine, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 9, 1996, Springfield, near Nashville, Tenn.) U.S. singer, songwriter, and mandolin player, inventor of the bluegrass style. Monroe began to play professionally in 1927 and later toured with his...
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Bill Monroe Information
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For the retired NBC News correspondent of the same name, see Bill Monroe...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Bill Monroe
09/13/1996: 962 words, approx. 3 pages
Though he was known as "the father of bluegrass music", Bill Monroe, who died on Monday only days before his 85th birthday, did not invent the genre. But like the moment when Louis Armstrong let rip on "West End Blues" and "invented" the jazz...
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Sing Out!
The Bill Monroe Reader. (book review)
03/22/2002: 413 words, approx. 1 pages
The Bill Monroe Reader By Tom Ewing University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 2000, 302 pages, ISBN 0252025008, hbk., $29.95 As the only musician to have founded a musical subgenre, Monroe, who died in 1996 at age 84, figures prominently as a...
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AP News
Vincent & Rage lead Bluegrass noms
8/16/2007: 282 words, approx. 1 pages
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage received 12 nominations Thursday from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including entertainer of the year.Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver picked up nine nominations, individually and collectively, while Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky...
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Vincent & Rage lead bluegrass nominees
8/17/2007: 283 words, approx. 1 pages
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage have received 12 nominations from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including entertainer of the year.Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver picked up nine nominations, individually and collectively, while Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky...
 


 

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