Banjo Display at Kentucky Bluegrass Museum
Museum ExhibitThis panel from the Kentucky Bluegrass Museum in the Ohio River city of Owensboro, Kentucky's fourth-largest city. The display features a banjo inscribed with the message: "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender." Other objects in the case feature photographs and publications from the folk revival from the 1950s-1970s.
The main panel reads: "The folk music revival of the 1960s greatly expanded the market and geography for bluegrass. A good number of bluegrass bands found work at colleges, folk festivals, and trendy urban coffeehouses. The first bluegrass college concert--in 1960 at Ohio's Antioch College--featured the Osbourne Brothers. Bands such as The Greenbriar Boys (New York), the Dillards (California), and the Country Gentlemen (Washington, D.C.) took particular advantage of the folk music phenomenon."
The main panel reads: "The folk music revival of the 1960s greatly expanded the market and geography for bluegrass. A good number of bluegrass bands found work at colleges, folk festivals, and trendy urban coffeehouses. The first bluegrass college concert--in 1960 at Ohio's Antioch College--featured the Osbourne Brothers. Bands such as The Greenbriar Boys (New York), the Dillards (California), and the Country Gentlemen (Washington, D.C.) took particular advantage of the folk music phenomenon."