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Fred Bartenstein (on guitar) in his middle-school jug band, Hillside, NJ. 1962 or 1963, spacer Fred Bartenstein (on guitar) in his middle-school jug band, Hillside, NJ. 1962 or 1963,
Fred Bartenstein (in hat) jams with Jody Stecher.  Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA.  1967.  (Photo: Buck Peacock) spacer Fred Bartenstein (in hat) jams with Jody Stecher. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA.  1967.  (Photo: Buck Peacock)
Grass Roots spacer Fred Bartenstein announces "The Grass Roots of Music." WDHA-FM, Dover, NJ. 1968
Tut Taylor, Hughie Wylie, Darryl Wolfe, Mitch Wolfe, Fred Bartenstein.
Union Grove, NC Fiddler's Convention 1968 spacer Tut Taylor, Hughie Wylie, Darryl Wolfe, Mitch Wolfe, Fred Bartenstein. In the background looking on is 16-year-old Terry Baucom. Union Grove, NC Fiddler's Convention 1968. (Photo: Bobby Wolfe)
Roland White, Butch Robins, Fred Bartenstein.  Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. 1968 (Photo: Ken Landreth) spacer Roland White, Butch Robins, Fred Bartenstein. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. 1968 (Photo: Ken Landreth)
Fred with Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley spacer Bill Monroe, Fred Bartenstein, Ralph Stanley. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. 1969 (Photo: Ron Petronko)
Carlton Haney and Fred spacer Don Reno, Fred Bartenstein, Carlton Haney, John U. Miller. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA 1969 (Photo: Ron Petronko)
Carlton Haney and Fred spacer Carlton Haney and Fred Bartenstein. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. 1969 (Photo: Artie Rose)
Watermelon Park spacer Randall Collins, Sam Cobb, Joe Isaacs and Fred Bartenstein. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. 1969 (Photo: Artie Rose)
Kenny Baker, Rual Yarbrough, Bill Monroe, Curtis Blackwell, Fred, Mac Wiseman, James Monroe. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July, 1969 (Photo: Artie Rose) spacer Kenny Baker, Rual Yarbrough, Bill Monroe, Curtis Blackwell, Fred Bartenstein, Mac Wiseman, James Monroe. Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July, 1969 (Photo: Artie Rose)
Fiddlers Convention spacer Snuffy Jenkins, Pappy Sherrill, Butch Robins, Fred Bartenstein and Danny Campbell. Union Grove, NC Fiddler's Convention. 1969 (Photo: Pat Ahrens-Striblin)
With Tex Logan spacer Tex Logan and Fred Bartenstein. Loy Beaver's basement, Northern NJ. November 1969 (Photo: Artie Rose)
Everett Lilly, Don Stover, Jiles Lilly, Fred Bartenstein at Loy Beaver's
basement, northern NJ. 1970 (photo: Artie Rose) spacer Everett Lilly, Don Stover, Jiles Lilly, Fred Bartenstein at Loy Beaver's basement, northern NJ. November 1969 (photo: Artie Rose)
Fred Bartenstein onstage at Camp Springs, NC Bluegrass Festival.  Doug
Benson in upper right.  September, 1970 (Photo: Ron Petronko) spacer Fred Bartenstein onstage at Camp Springs, NC Bluegrass Festival. Doug Benson in upper right. September, 1970 (Photo: Ron Petronko)
Tex Logan, Fred Bartenstein, Ralph Stanley, George Shuffler at Loy Beaver's
basement, northern NJ. 1970 (photo: Artie Rose) spacer Tex Logan, Fred Bartenstein, Ralph Stanley, George Shuffler at Loy Beaver's basement, northern NJ. 1970 (photo: Artie Rose)
With Don Stover spacer Don Stover and Fred Bartenstein, Freshman Union, Harvard College. 1970 (photo: L.E. Temple)
With Bob Applebaum spacer Bob Applebaum and Fred Bartenstein, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA. 1970. (Photo: Julia Sinclair)
Fred Bartenstein, MC at the bluegrass festival, Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July 1971. (Photo: Akira Otsuka) spacer Fred Bartenstein, MC at the bluegrass festival, Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July 1971. (Photo: Akira Otsuka)
String Music Championship spacer Fred Bartenstein, Carlton Haney, and Charles Faurot at String Music Championship, Camp Springs, NC. August, 1970 (Photo: Nick Hancock)
Awards Show spacer J. D. Crowe, Fred Bartenstein and Earl Scruggs, First Muleskinner News Bluegrass Awards Show, Camp Springs, NC. 1971
With Sonny Osborne spacer Sonny Osborne and Fred Bartenstein. Camp Springs, NC. 1971
Fred Bartenstein at the Bluegrass Country Soul movie premiere, Washington, DC, 1972. (photo: Albert Ihde) spacer Fred Bartenstein at the Bluegrass Country Soul movie premiere, Washington, DC, 1972. (photo: Albert Ihde)
Don Stover, Fred Bartenstein, Bill Yates at Indian Ranch, Webster, MA. 1972
(Photo: Fred Robbins) spacer Don Stover, Fred Bartenstein, Bill Yates at Indian Ranch, Webster, MA. 1972 (Photo: Fred Robbins)
Cafe Passim spacer Richie Brown, Fred Bartenstein and Bob Tidwell. Cafe Passim, Cambridge, MA. 1972 (Photo: Kim Ladewig)
Selling Muleskinner Blues spacer Fred Bartenstein sells Muleskinner News in the crowd. Culpeper, VA. 1972 (Photo: Carl Fleischauer)
Fred and Ralph spacer Fred Bartenstein and Ralph Stanley. Old Homeplace Festival, McClure VA. 1973
Bill Monroe Day spacer Bill Monroe Day at Rindge Technical High School, Cambridge, MA. 1973
Gettysburg 1973 spacer Tex Logan, Dick Smith, Frank Wakefield, Fred Bartenstein, Gene Johnson. Gettysburg, PA. 1973 (Photo: Pat Corey, courtesy of www.candlewater.com/the70s)
At Ralph's spacer Fred Bartenstein at Ralph Stanley's Old Homeplace Festival, McClure, VA. 1973 (Photo: Alan Whitman)
Emcee Fred Bartenstein waits for a late band onstage at the
Country Gentlemen's Bluegrass Festival, Escoheag, RI. 1973 (Photo: Cole
Denoncourt)
spacer Emcee Fred Bartenstein waits for a late band onstage at the Country Gentlemen's Bluegrass Festival, Escoheag, RI. 1973 (Photo: Cole Denoncourt)
Courtney Johnson and Sam Bush (New Grass Revival) and Fred Bartenstein, Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July 1973. (Photo: Albert Ihde) spacer Courtney Johnson and Sam Bush (New Grass Revival) and Fred Bartenstein, Watermelon Park, Berryville, VA. July 1973. (Photo: Albert Ihde)
spacer spacer Fred Bartenstein onstage at Camp Springs, NC. 1973 (Photo: Alan Whitman)
Dorsey Harvey Band 1978 spacer Dorsey Harvey Band: Glen Inman, Dorsey Harvey, Fred Bartenstein, Sherrill Jennings. Dayton, OH. 1978 (Photo: Karen Copher)
Dorsey Harvey Band spacer Dorsey Harvey Band. Seated: Dorsey Harvey. Standing (L-R): Fred Bartenstein, Glen Inman, Sherrill Jennings. Dayton, OH. 1978 (Photo: Karen Copher)
Joy spacer Joy Bartenstein, Dayton, OH. 1978 (Photo: Karen Copher)
spacer spacer Fred Bartenstein announces "WONE Bluegrass Special." Dayton, OH. 1980 (Photo: Susan Zurcher)
Mountain Days spacer Fred Bartenstein emcees at Mountain Days, Eastwood Metropark, Dayton, OH. 1996 (Photo: Betty Richards)
Pickin' Party spacer Fred Bartenstein announces "Bluegrass Pickin' Party," Xenia, OH. 1998 (Photo: Annette Ericksen)
Pickin' Party spacer Banks of the Ohio listeners Katsuhiko Sasada, Yoshihiro Sumie, and Tatsuo Arita with Fred Bartenstein, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 2004 (Photo: Joy Bartenstein)
Fred Bartenstein at 40th Reunion of 1st Bluegrass Festival,
Fincastle, VA, 2005 spacer Fred Bartenstein at 40th Reunion of 1st Bluegrass Festival, Fincastle, VA, 2005 (Photo: Marcia Goodman)
Fred Bartenstein and Carlton Haney at 40th Reunion of 1st
Bluegrass Festival, Fincastle, VA, 2005 (Photo: Marcia Goodman) spacer Fred Bartenstein and Carlton Haney at 40th Reunion of 1st Bluegrass Festival, Fincastle, VA, 2005 (Photo: Marcia Goodman)
Fred Bartenstein and Phil Zimmerman at 40th Reunion of
1st Bluegrass Festival, Fincastle, VA, 2005 spacer Fred Bartenstein and Phil Zimmerman at 40th Reunion of 1st Bluegrass Festival, Fincastle, VA, 2005 (Photo: Marcia Goodman)
Saburo Watanabe Inoue, Fred Bartenstein, Marian
Leighton, and Kenichi Yamaguchi at Bluegrass Symposium, Bowling Green, KY,
2005 spacer Saburo Watanabe Inoue, Fred Bartenstein, Marian Leighton, and Kenichi Yamaguchi at Bluegrass Symposium, Bowling Green, KY, 2005 (Photo: Junko Yamaguchi)
Fred Bartenstein faciltating a planning retreat at Tsegyalgar Dzogchen Community, Conway MA, 2005. (Photo: Anna Bartenstein) spacer Fred Bartenstein faciltating a planning retreat at Tsegyalgar Dzogchen Community, Conway MA, 2005. (Photo: Anna Bartenstein)
Steve Martin (Grass Cats) and Fred Bartenstein, Bass Mountain Festival, NC.
May, 2006  (Photo: John Briggs)) spacer Steve Martin (Grass Cats) and Fred Bartenstein, Bass Mountain Festival, NC, May, 2006 (Photo: John Briggs)
Fred Bartenstein and Frankfurt, Germany listeners Georg and Martha Weber at "Banks of the Ohio World Headquarters," Yellow Springs, OH. August, 2006 (Photo: Virgil Hervey) spacer Fred Bartenstein and Frankfurt, Germany listeners Georg and Martha Weber at "Banks of the Ohio World Headquarters," Yellow Springs, OH, August, 2006 (Photo: Virgil Hervey)
Two 2006 IBMA Distinguised Achievement Award Winners – Ronnie Reno and Fred Bartenstein, near Nyack, NY, 1968. (Photo: Cliff Bailey) spacer Two 2006 IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award Winners – Ronnie Reno and Fred Bartenstein, near Nyack, NY, 1968. (Photo: Cliff Bailey)
Fred Bartenstein emcees at the European World of Bluegrass, Voorthuizen, the Netherlands, May, 2007 (Photo: Georg Weber) spacer Fred Bartenstein emcees at the European World of Bluegrass, Voorthuizen, the Netherlands, May, 2007 (Photo: Georg Weber)
Fred Bartenstein and Bodø, Norway Banks of the Ohio listener Anne Marie
Brekke, north of the Arctic circle, September, 2008. (photo: Joy
Bartenstein)
spacer Fred Bartenstein and Bodø, Norway "Banks of the Ohio" listener Anne Marie Brekke, north of the Arctic circle, September, 2008. (photo: Joy Bartenstein)
Fred Bartenstein facilitates International Bluegrass Summit, Nashville,
TN. October, 2008 (Photo: Lilly Pavlak)
spacer Fred Bartenstein facilitates International Bluegrass Summit, Nashville, TN. October, 2008. On Fred's left is George McKnight, his successor as webcast/broadcast host
of "Banks of the Ohio." (Photo: Lilly Pavlak)
Fred interviews early Bluegrass Alliance members at spacer Fred interviews early Bluegrass Alliance members at "The Bluegrass Hotel," Louisville, KY, 2008. Fred Bartenstein, Danny Jones, Buddy Spurlock, Dan Crary, and Sam Bush. (Photo: Terry McManus)
Fred Bartenstein facilitates the European Bluegrass Summit, Buehl, Germany,
February, 2009. (photo: Lilly Pavlak)

spacer Fred Bartenstein facilitates the European Bluegrass Summit, Buehl, Germany, February, 2009. (photo: Lilly Pavlak)
Fred Bartenstein presents at Leadership Bluegrass 2009, March, 2009, BMI, Nashville, TN, March, 2009.  (photo: Priscilla Warnock) spacer Fred Bartenstein presents at Leadership Bluegrass, BMI, Nashville, TN, March, 2009. (photo: Priscilla Warnock)
Fred Bartenstein presents at the International Country Music
Conference, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, May, 2009.  (photo: James
Akenson)

spacer Fred Bartenstein presents at the International Country Music Conference, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, May, 2009. (photo: James Akenson)
BluegrassCountry.org announcer Katy Daley and Fred Bartenstein, literally on the banks of the Ohio.  Taken outside River Park Center, downtown Owensboro,
Kentucky, during the International Bluegrass Music Museum's ROMP Celebration, June, 2009 spacer BluegrassCountry.org announcer Katy Daley and Fred Bartenstein, literally on the banks of the Ohio. Taken outside River Park Center, downtown Owensboro, Kentucky, during the International Bluegrass Music Museum’s ROMP Celebration, June, 2009
Fred Bartenstein, Neil Rosenberg, Evelyn Graves (Josh's widow), Bryan Graves (Josh's youngest son) and Ed Read (Josh's manager) at University of Illinois Press launch event for Bluegrass Bluesman: a Memoir by Josh Graves, edited by Fred Bartenstein.  Nashville, TN, September 27, 2012 -- Josh's 85th birthday (Photo: Michael Roux) spacer Fred Bartenstein, Neil Rosenberg, Evelyn Graves (Josh’s widow), Bryan Graves (Josh’s youngest son) and Ed Read (Josh’s manager) at University of Illinois Press launch event for Bluegrass Bluesman: a Memoir by Josh Graves, edited by Fred Bartenstein. Nashville, TN, September 27, 2012 – Josh’s 85th birthday (Photo: Michael Roux)
Fred Bartenstein leads a workshop on bluegrass music at Young Harris College in North Georgia, March, 2013. (photo: Ron Roach) spacer Fred Bartenstein leads a workshop on bluegrass music at Young Harris College in North Georgia, March, 2013. (photo: Ron Roach)

Fred Bartenstein at Special Awards Luncheon, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, where he won Print/Media Personality of the Year and Liner Notes of the Year, September 26, 2013.  (Photo: Bill Warren, www.Candidpix.Info) spacer Fred Bartenstein at Special Awards Luncheon, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, where he won Print/Media Personality of the Year and Liner Notes of the Year, September 26, 2013. (Photo: Bill Warren, www.Candidpix.Info)

Fred Bartenstein presenting Liner Notes of the Year award to Neil Rosenberg at Special Awards Luncheon, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 2, 2014. (Photo: Bill Warren, www.Candidpix.Info) spacer Fred Bartenstein presenting Liner Notes of the Year award to Neil Rosenberg at Special Awards Luncheon, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 2, 2014. (Photo: Bill Warren, www.Candidpix.Info)

Fred Bartenstein and Gary Reid, co-authors of The Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies 1991-2014, present Neil Rosenberg's Hall of Fame induction at IBMA Awards Show, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 2, 2014. (Photo: Daniel Boner) spacer Fred Bartenstein and Gary Reid, co-authors of The Bluegrass Hall of Fame: Inductee Biographies 1991-2014, present Neil Rosenberg’s Hall of Fame induction at IBMA Awards Show, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 2, 2014. (Photo: Daniel Boner)

Two generations of bluegrass music scholars. Jordan Laney, Lee Bidgood, Fred Bartenstein, and Nancy Cardwell at International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN. May, 2015 (Photo: James Akenson) spacer Two generations of bluegrass music scholars. Jordan Laney, Lee Bidgood, Fred Bartenstein, and Nancy Cardwell at International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN. May, 2015 (Photo: James Akenson)

Fred Bartenstein signs copies of The Bluegrass Hall of Fame at Augusta Heritage Center’s Bluegrass Week, Elkins, WV, July, 2015. (Photo: Donald Wermuth) spacer Fred Bartenstein signs copies of The Bluegrass Hall of Fame at Augusta Heritage Center’s Bluegrass Week, Elkins, WV, July, 2015. (Photo: Donald Wermuth)

Fred Bartenstein presents the International Bluegrass Music Museum’s Distinguished Achievement Award, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 1, 2015. (Photo: Daniel Boner) spacer Fred Bartenstein presents the International Bluegrass Music Museum’s Distinguished Achievement Award, World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, October 1, 2015. (Photo: Daniel Boner)

Art Menius, Fred Bartenstein, Penny Parsons at Carolina Bluegrass Summit, UNC-Chapel Hill, November 12, 2016. (Photo: Jordan Laney) spacer Art Menius, Fred Bartenstein, Penny Parsons at Carolina Bluegrass Summit, UNC-Chapel Hill, November 12, 2016. (Photo: Jordan Laney)

Fred Bartenstein moderates Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage lecture series, Hamilton (OH), March 7, 2017. (Photo: Miami University Regionals) spacer Fred Bartenstein moderates Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage lecture series, Hamilton (OH), March 7, 2017. (Photo: Miami University Regionals)

Fred Bartenstein moderates Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage lecture series, Hamilton (OH), March 7, 2017. (Photo: Miami University Regionals) spacer Fred Bartenstein emcees University of Dayton’s Bluegrass Festival Evening, September 20, 2017.

Ruth McLain, Fred Bartenstein, and Christopher Howard-Williams at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 29, 2022. (Photo: Sarah Mitchell) spacer Ruth McLain, Fred Bartenstein, and Christopher Howard-Williams at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 29, 2022. (Photo: Sarah Mitchell)

Fred Bartenstein and Austin Scelzo at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 29, 2022. (Photo: Sarah Mitchell) spacer Fred Bartenstein and Austin Scelzo at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 29, 2022. (Photo: Sarah Mitchell)

Fred Bartenstein and the 2023 Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle prize guitar at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 30, 2022. (Photo: Nancy Cardwell) spacer Fred Bartenstein and the 2023 Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle prize guitar at World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC, September 30, 2022. (Photo: Nancy Cardwell)

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