Established in 2011 at the Bill Monroe Music Park & Campground in Bean Blossom, Indiana, the John Hartford Memorial Festival is known as "The Most Laid-Back Festival in America"! Our unique festival maintains a genre busting line-up like no other festival with a list of performers whose music is varied, different, fresh and original, and [...]
John Hartford, along with Louise Scruggs, was inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2010. http://www.bluegrassmuseum.org/inductees/
Article on the 2005 Americana Music Awards -- http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61482/prine-miller-top-americana-awards
Article on the 2002 Grammy Awards -- https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/20020228_o_brother_soundtrack_rules_44th_annual_grammy_awards Grammy performance of "Man Of Constant Sorrow" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-C_HVoiJpY
John Cowan Hartford passed away on June 4, 2001 in Nashville, TN, after a 21-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
John was Master of Ceremonies for the inaugural Ryman Auditorium performance of "Down From The Mountain", based on the music of the Grammy-award winning soundtrack from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
May 19-21, 1989, Pittsburgh, PA
