Help to save Bean Blossom

You can help to save the Bean Blossom Music Park in Brown County, Indiana - and the annual festivals there in memory of Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass music and founder of the park as a venue dedicated to bluegrass - by voting here for a grant to Bean Blossom from the Pepsi Refresh project. The Bean Blossom Brown County Jamboree Preservation Foundation, Inc., says:

The monies from the Pepsi Refresh Project will allow the Foundation to continue to host music events that will increase public awareness of the special history, heritage, and music of Brown County, Indiana, and in particular, the music of Bill Monroe, by purchasing, conserving and operating in perpetuity the Bean Blossom Music Park.

The vision is for a permanent music park and educational center grounded in the history of the musical events at Bean Blossom that will allow local and regional artisans and bluegrass music artists and promoters the continuation of thousands of visitors to the festival site each year from all over the world who come to enjoy the events at Bean Blossom continuing the nearly seventy-year-old musical tradition for future generations.

The festival site is located in Brown County, Indiana, approximately 50 miles south of Indianapolis and was host to seven music festivals in 2009 attracting 100,000 visitors from all over the world.

Anyone who's been to Bean Blossom will know it's worth saving - so vote early and often!