Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival Film Clip - June 1971

The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Indiana.
There is no direct audio other than the soundtrack.
As in my previous Frontier Ranch Festival 1972 film clip, see if you can identify some of the artists and their sidemen. Can you identify the music and artists on the soundtrack?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bluegrass
• Bean
• Blossom
• Bill
• Monroe

[musungutuloko]

What is the first song? It's so amazingly good.

[BluegrassLibrary]

@musungutuloko

It is the "Orange Blossom Special." The Fiddler is Gene Elders.

[philthefiddler1]

Spectacular. thank you!

[Sambryan465]

That fiddler at the beginning kicks some major ass

[zootcst]

I found this vid while looking for info on the sound system they used in 1973 to record Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom album. Very cool footage and soundtrack. Thanks.

[grasscapodetutti]

Bill 1:23,JohnHartford 2:09, Tut Taylor 2:19, Norman Blake 2:12 & 2:30, @7:26 is a fiddler w/out a right hand (cannot remember his name), Lester Flatt 8:20?, Doc & Merle Watson 8:38, Jimmie Gaudreau 13:24, Country Gentlemen 13:27, Bill Emerson, Charlie Waller and a bug @13:36, The Aereoplain Band-Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor, John Hartford, and Norman Blake (back to camera, long ponytail hair) 14:01-05. What a time capsule!

[robbif]

This is a wonderful find. It was pointed out to me by 2 members of the Japanese group Bluegrass 45 who wowed the US crowds on the 1970s. It ties in with a project I'm doing to post a collection of bluegrass audio from Ken Landreth which includes this festival. Since I'm not allowed to add a web link here, Google for: Landreth Collection

[brodank]

This festival videos are AWESOME!! thanks so much for the uploads, they lift my spirits when i am stuck at the office and would soo much rather be jammin at a bluegrass festival

[hayiti]

I was 12 yrs. old and this was my 2nd yr at Beanblossom. This brought back some of the sweetest and most special times of my childhood.  The bluegrass talent that performed there was remarkable. People brought lawnchairs or blankets and just kicked back and enjoyed the music. Thank God for Bill Monroe and starting up the festivals and thanks Youtube for posting this. Awesome!!!

[johnny85er]

this is just tremendous.. unreal to think about how long this festival has been taking place & how many people have shared such wonderful music on that land :)

[RickRiman]

I think that's John Hartford on the banjo at 2:15. Anybody else have a guess?