International Bluegrass Officials Say Commitments Down

{Kentucky}...The International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro has organized reunions of bluegrass pioneers and members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys for years, but museum officials say it's getting harder to get commitments. The museum held an event called the Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration that ended on Wednesday. Every active member of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame performed during the three-day tribute to Monroe that surrounded the 100th anniversary of his birth in Rosine. Earl Scruggs, 87, is the only surviving member of what music historians consider the first bluegrass band - with members that included Monroe, Lester Flatt, Scruggs, Chubby Wise and Howard Watts - that started in 1945.