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Save the Bean Blossom Blue Grass Jamboree from development.Bean Blossom Brown County Jamboree Preservation Foundation, Inc.

COMPETED FOR

$250K
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Competed in
April, 2010

Goals

  • To preserve the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom festival in perpetuity

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Overview

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.

How will the 250K be Used?

Budget Notes: Operations, advertising, salary.
$ 250,000 For acquisition of festival site.
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