Billy Joe Grant
May 09, 1929 - July 09, 2019
This last mile was difficult and made him weary but last night he took the hand of Jesus and they climbed the stairway he has sung about so many times. His legacy will surely live on....
Details for a memorial will follow at later date.
We will celebrate the life of Bill Grant at 2pm August 10, 2019 at the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo, OK.
Bill Grant was born Billy Joe Grant on May 9, 1930, a Choctaw tribal member, and grew up on a ranch near Hugo, Oklahoma.[7] Inspired by the music of Bill Monroe, he took up mandolin.[8]
Grant has been recognized as "Ambassador of Bluegrass Music" by three Oklahoma governors
Bill Grant passes
Posted on July 10, 2019 By Richard Thompson
Bill Grant passed away on Tuesday, July 09, 2019, after a brief confinement to hospital following a fall on May 18 that resulted in a fractured leg.
Billy Joe Grant was born in Hugo, Oklahoma on May 9, 1929; a Choctaw tribal member, he grew up on the family ranch near Hugo, and worked in the Fort Worth stockyards for a while.
Surprisingly, he didn’t have a musical instrument until when in high school, was inspired by Bill Monroe, and took up the mandolin.
Grant is best known for the 40-year musical partnership with Delia Bell during which time they recorded 32 albums. A dozen were released on their own label Kiamichi Records, while others can be found on the County, Rebel, and Rounder labels.
For a little over a decade – beginning in the late 1960s, the duo was backed by the Kiamichi Mountain Boys (also known as the Bonham Brothers), a group named after the Kiamichi Mountains near their home.
When the Kiamichi Mountain Boys were disbanded in 1980, they worked either with the Johnson Mountain Boys or as a mandolin/guitar duo.
Bill Grant and Delia Bell performed in 34 states and seven countries, among those being England and Ireland, wherein they toured 11 times during the 1970s.
They continued to perform as a duo until 2006 when their partnership ended. In the following year Grant began singing on a limited basis with his stepdaughter, Amy Patrick.
Grant is credited with promoting the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. His multi-day festival at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1969, had its roots in a gathering two years earlier.
His honors include the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award (in 2006); recognition – with Bell – as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music (by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky); and induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (2017).
His passing was just over a year after Delia Bell passed away.
We will share information about the funeral and memorial gathering as and when that information is known.
Also, we aim to bring a remembrance and career overview in due course.
R.I.P., Bill Grant
***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ *****
Bluegrass Legend Bill Grant Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
by STACY HUTTO
Choctaw tribal member and Bluegrass legend Bill Grant (right) holds up his trophy after being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 25. Grant has been an influence to many musicians during his lifetime. After seeing a bluegrass festival put on by Bill Monroe, Grant brought the first one to Hugo. The Hugo festival was the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. Former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board Member Virgil Bonham (center) along with Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair (left) inducted Grant into the Music Hall of Fame.
Fans of bluegrass music filled the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo for Bill Grant Presents Bluegrass on the Kiamichi Trace on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25. The two-day festival officially started at noon both days and ended at 10 p.m., but bluegrass filled the air hours before the festival started.
Bluegrass legend and Choctaw tribal member Bill Grant performed the second day of the festival with his band and his stepdaughter Amy Patrick. After his set, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair took the stage and introduced Board Member and Bill Grant’s former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate, Virgil Bonham.
Bonham spoke about his dad coming home from a bluegrass festival in Hugo in 1969 and saying they had to go back next year because it was an awesome event. The following year Bonham slept under a station wagon and they stayed the night.
While Bonham’s dad and uncle were playing they met Grant. After the festival the three men got together and formed the Kiamichi Mountain Boys and Bonham said at 11-years-old he cut his first record with Bill Grant.
“Virgil was about this tall (hip height) and standing on a box playing a big bass,” Grant told the audience.
Bonham wove a tale about the first record they cut. With hot links cooking they ate good food and did some picking. They wrote a few tunes. Emmylou Harris recorded one of them, “Roses in the Snow,” and it became a country hit. Another song from that session, “Stairway to Heaven,” continues to be performed by Grant to this day.
For Bonham, the day was an honor because Grant gave a 10-year-old boy a chance to play on a stage and write songs, which Bonham continues to do as part of the Bonham Review and Hankerin’ 4 Hank, a Hank Williams tribute band.
He credits Grant with being a musical influence. He said Grant was his influence to play the mandolin. Until he met Grant he thought he’d play the bass fiddle, but to this day he continues to play the mandolin.
Grant has influenced many musicians besides Bonham. Among those who credit Grant’s influence are Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley and many more.
Bonham mentioned that as a member of Choctaw Nation, Grant has done wonders for the tribe and the recognition Grant brings back to the tribe is nothing but positive.
After speaking about Grant, Bonham said, “Bill, it is my honor to be the one to hand you this trophy, and I would like to induct you into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.”
Grant, a soft-spoken, humble man, accepted the award from Bonham.
“You sure know how to make a country boy proud. I can’t hardly express words to say what is in my heart,” Grant said.
He talked about being in Muskogee while the Music Hall of Fame was being built and someone telling him he might be in there one day. “I said I doubt it, but it’d be nice and it is nice,” Grant said.
Before exiting the stage Grant said, “Thank you very much. God bless you and thank you one more time.”
In addition to being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, Grant has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame, awarded the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his contribution to bluegrass as a promoter, songwriter and performer, and the Oklahoma Arts Council created a special recognition award for Grant’s support of the arts in Oklahoma.
May 09, 1929 - July 09, 2019
This last mile was difficult and made him weary but last night he took the hand of Jesus and they climbed the stairway he has sung about so many times. His legacy will surely live on....
Details for a memorial will follow at later date.
We will celebrate the life of Bill Grant at 2pm August 10, 2019 at the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo, OK.
Bill Grant was born Billy Joe Grant on May 9, 1930, a Choctaw tribal member, and grew up on a ranch near Hugo, Oklahoma.[7] Inspired by the music of Bill Monroe, he took up mandolin.[8]
Grant has been recognized as "Ambassador of Bluegrass Music" by three Oklahoma governors
Bill Grant passes
Posted on July 10, 2019 By Richard Thompson
Bill Grant passed away on Tuesday, July 09, 2019, after a brief confinement to hospital following a fall on May 18 that resulted in a fractured leg.
Billy Joe Grant was born in Hugo, Oklahoma on May 9, 1929; a Choctaw tribal member, he grew up on the family ranch near Hugo, and worked in the Fort Worth stockyards for a while.
Surprisingly, he didn’t have a musical instrument until when in high school, was inspired by Bill Monroe, and took up the mandolin.
Grant is best known for the 40-year musical partnership with Delia Bell during which time they recorded 32 albums. A dozen were released on their own label Kiamichi Records, while others can be found on the County, Rebel, and Rounder labels.
For a little over a decade – beginning in the late 1960s, the duo was backed by the Kiamichi Mountain Boys (also known as the Bonham Brothers), a group named after the Kiamichi Mountains near their home.
When the Kiamichi Mountain Boys were disbanded in 1980, they worked either with the Johnson Mountain Boys or as a mandolin/guitar duo.
Bill Grant and Delia Bell performed in 34 states and seven countries, among those being England and Ireland, wherein they toured 11 times during the 1970s.
They continued to perform as a duo until 2006 when their partnership ended. In the following year Grant began singing on a limited basis with his stepdaughter, Amy Patrick.
Grant is credited with promoting the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. His multi-day festival at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1969, had its roots in a gathering two years earlier.
His honors include the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award (in 2006); recognition – with Bell – as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music (by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky); and induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (2017).
His passing was just over a year after Delia Bell passed away.
We will share information about the funeral and memorial gathering as and when that information is known.
Also, we aim to bring a remembrance and career overview in due course.
R.I.P., Bill Grant
***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ *****
Bluegrass Legend Bill Grant Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
by STACY HUTTO
Choctaw tribal member and Bluegrass legend Bill Grant (right) holds up his trophy after being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 25. Grant has been an influence to many musicians during his lifetime. After seeing a bluegrass festival put on by Bill Monroe, Grant brought the first one to Hugo. The Hugo festival was the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. Former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board Member Virgil Bonham (center) along with Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair (left) inducted Grant into the Music Hall of Fame.
Fans of bluegrass music filled the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo for Bill Grant Presents Bluegrass on the Kiamichi Trace on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25. The two-day festival officially started at noon both days and ended at 10 p.m., but bluegrass filled the air hours before the festival started.
Bluegrass legend and Choctaw tribal member Bill Grant performed the second day of the festival with his band and his stepdaughter Amy Patrick. After his set, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair took the stage and introduced Board Member and Bill Grant’s former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate, Virgil Bonham.
Bonham spoke about his dad coming home from a bluegrass festival in Hugo in 1969 and saying they had to go back next year because it was an awesome event. The following year Bonham slept under a station wagon and they stayed the night.
While Bonham’s dad and uncle were playing they met Grant. After the festival the three men got together and formed the Kiamichi Mountain Boys and Bonham said at 11-years-old he cut his first record with Bill Grant.
“Virgil was about this tall (hip height) and standing on a box playing a big bass,” Grant told the audience.
Bonham wove a tale about the first record they cut. With hot links cooking they ate good food and did some picking. They wrote a few tunes. Emmylou Harris recorded one of them, “Roses in the Snow,” and it became a country hit. Another song from that session, “Stairway to Heaven,” continues to be performed by Grant to this day.
For Bonham, the day was an honor because Grant gave a 10-year-old boy a chance to play on a stage and write songs, which Bonham continues to do as part of the Bonham Review and Hankerin’ 4 Hank, a Hank Williams tribute band.
He credits Grant with being a musical influence. He said Grant was his influence to play the mandolin. Until he met Grant he thought he’d play the bass fiddle, but to this day he continues to play the mandolin.
Grant has influenced many musicians besides Bonham. Among those who credit Grant’s influence are Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley and many more.
Bonham mentioned that as a member of Choctaw Nation, Grant has done wonders for the tribe and the recognition Grant brings back to the tribe is nothing but positive.
After speaking about Grant, Bonham said, “Bill, it is my honor to be the one to hand you this trophy, and I would like to induct you into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.”
Grant, a soft-spoken, humble man, accepted the award from Bonham.
“You sure know how to make a country boy proud. I can’t hardly express words to say what is in my heart,” Grant said.
He talked about being in Muskogee while the Music Hall of Fame was being built and someone telling him he might be in there one day. “I said I doubt it, but it’d be nice and it is nice,” Grant said.
Before exiting the stage Grant said, “Thank you very much. God bless you and thank you one more time.”
In addition to being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, Grant has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame, awarded the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his contribution to bluegrass as a promoter, songwriter and performer, and the Oklahoma Arts Council created a special recognition award for Grant’s support of the arts in Oklahoma.
Billy Joe Grant
May 09, 1929 - July 09, 2019
This last mile was difficult and made him weary but last night he took the hand of Jesus and they climbed the stairway he has sung about so many times. His legacy will surely live on....
Details for a memorial will follow at later date.
We will celebrate the life of Bill Grant at 2pm August 10, 2019 at the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo, OK.
Bill Grant was born Billy Joe Grant on May 9, 1930, a Choctaw tribal member, and grew up on a ranch near Hugo, Oklahoma.[7] Inspired by the music of Bill Monroe, he took up mandolin.[8]
Grant has been recognized as "Ambassador of Bluegrass Music" by three Oklahoma governors
Bill Grant passes
Posted on July 10, 2019 By Richard Thompson
Bill Grant passed away on Tuesday, July 09, 2019, after a brief confinement to hospital following a fall on May 18 that resulted in a fractured leg.
Billy Joe Grant was born in Hugo, Oklahoma on May 9, 1929; a Choctaw tribal member, he grew up on the family ranch near Hugo, and worked in the Fort Worth stockyards for a while.
Surprisingly, he didn’t have a musical instrument until when in high school, was inspired by Bill Monroe, and took up the mandolin.
Grant is best known for the 40-year musical partnership with Delia Bell during which time they recorded 32 albums. A dozen were released on their own label Kiamichi Records, while others can be found on the County, Rebel, and Rounder labels.
For a little over a decade – beginning in the late 1960s, the duo was backed by the Kiamichi Mountain Boys (also known as the Bonham Brothers), a group named after the Kiamichi Mountains near their home.
When the Kiamichi Mountain Boys were disbanded in 1980, they worked either with the Johnson Mountain Boys or as a mandolin/guitar duo.
Bill Grant and Delia Bell performed in 34 states and seven countries, among those being England and Ireland, wherein they toured 11 times during the 1970s.
They continued to perform as a duo until 2006 when their partnership ended. In the following year Grant began singing on a limited basis with his stepdaughter, Amy Patrick.
Grant is credited with promoting the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. His multi-day festival at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1969, had its roots in a gathering two years earlier.
His honors include the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award (in 2006); recognition – with Bell – as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music (by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky); and induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (2017).
His passing was just over a year after Delia Bell passed away.
We will share information about the funeral and memorial gathering as and when that information is known.
Also, we aim to bring a remembrance and career overview in due course.
R.I.P., Bill Grant
***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ *****
Bluegrass Legend Bill Grant Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
by STACY HUTTO
Choctaw tribal member and Bluegrass legend Bill Grant (right) holds up his trophy after being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 25. Grant has been an influence to many musicians during his lifetime. After seeing a bluegrass festival put on by Bill Monroe, Grant brought the first one to Hugo. The Hugo festival was the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. Former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board Member Virgil Bonham (center) along with Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair (left) inducted Grant into the Music Hall of Fame.
Fans of bluegrass music filled the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo for Bill Grant Presents Bluegrass on the Kiamichi Trace on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25. The two-day festival officially started at noon both days and ended at 10 p.m., but bluegrass filled the air hours before the festival started.
Bluegrass legend and Choctaw tribal member Bill Grant performed the second day of the festival with his band and his stepdaughter Amy Patrick. After his set, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair took the stage and introduced Board Member and Bill Grant’s former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate, Virgil Bonham.
Bonham spoke about his dad coming home from a bluegrass festival in Hugo in 1969 and saying they had to go back next year because it was an awesome event. The following year Bonham slept under a station wagon and they stayed the night.
While Bonham’s dad and uncle were playing they met Grant. After the festival the three men got together and formed the Kiamichi Mountain Boys and Bonham said at 11-years-old he cut his first record with Bill Grant.
“Virgil was about this tall (hip height) and standing on a box playing a big bass,” Grant told the audience.
Bonham wove a tale about the first record they cut. With hot links cooking they ate good food and did some picking. They wrote a few tunes. Emmylou Harris recorded one of them, “Roses in the Snow,” and it became a country hit. Another song from that session, “Stairway to Heaven,” continues to be performed by Grant to this day.
For Bonham, the day was an honor because Grant gave a 10-year-old boy a chance to play on a stage and write songs, which Bonham continues to do as part of the Bonham Review and Hankerin’ 4 Hank, a Hank Williams tribute band.
He credits Grant with being a musical influence. He said Grant was his influence to play the mandolin. Until he met Grant he thought he’d play the bass fiddle, but to this day he continues to play the mandolin.
Grant has influenced many musicians besides Bonham. Among those who credit Grant’s influence are Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley and many more.
Bonham mentioned that as a member of Choctaw Nation, Grant has done wonders for the tribe and the recognition Grant brings back to the tribe is nothing but positive.
After speaking about Grant, Bonham said, “Bill, it is my honor to be the one to hand you this trophy, and I would like to induct you into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.”
Grant, a soft-spoken, humble man, accepted the award from Bonham.
“You sure know how to make a country boy proud. I can’t hardly express words to say what is in my heart,” Grant said.
He talked about being in Muskogee while the Music Hall of Fame was being built and someone telling him he might be in there one day. “I said I doubt it, but it’d be nice and it is nice,” Grant said.
Before exiting the stage Grant said, “Thank you very much. God bless you and thank you one more time.”
In addition to being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, Grant has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame, awarded the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his contribution to bluegrass as a promoter, songwriter and performer, and the Oklahoma Arts Council created a special recognition award for Grant’s support of the arts in Oklahoma.
May 09, 1929 - July 09, 2019
This last mile was difficult and made him weary but last night he took the hand of Jesus and they climbed the stairway he has sung about so many times. His legacy will surely live on....
Details for a memorial will follow at later date.
We will celebrate the life of Bill Grant at 2pm August 10, 2019 at the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo, OK.
Bill Grant was born Billy Joe Grant on May 9, 1930, a Choctaw tribal member, and grew up on a ranch near Hugo, Oklahoma.[7] Inspired by the music of Bill Monroe, he took up mandolin.[8]
Grant has been recognized as "Ambassador of Bluegrass Music" by three Oklahoma governors
Bill Grant passes
Posted on July 10, 2019 By Richard Thompson
Bill Grant passed away on Tuesday, July 09, 2019, after a brief confinement to hospital following a fall on May 18 that resulted in a fractured leg.
Billy Joe Grant was born in Hugo, Oklahoma on May 9, 1929; a Choctaw tribal member, he grew up on the family ranch near Hugo, and worked in the Fort Worth stockyards for a while.
Surprisingly, he didn’t have a musical instrument until when in high school, was inspired by Bill Monroe, and took up the mandolin.
Grant is best known for the 40-year musical partnership with Delia Bell during which time they recorded 32 albums. A dozen were released on their own label Kiamichi Records, while others can be found on the County, Rebel, and Rounder labels.
For a little over a decade – beginning in the late 1960s, the duo was backed by the Kiamichi Mountain Boys (also known as the Bonham Brothers), a group named after the Kiamichi Mountains near their home.
When the Kiamichi Mountain Boys were disbanded in 1980, they worked either with the Johnson Mountain Boys or as a mandolin/guitar duo.
Bill Grant and Delia Bell performed in 34 states and seven countries, among those being England and Ireland, wherein they toured 11 times during the 1970s.
They continued to perform as a duo until 2006 when their partnership ended. In the following year Grant began singing on a limited basis with his stepdaughter, Amy Patrick.
Grant is credited with promoting the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. His multi-day festival at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1969, had its roots in a gathering two years earlier.
His honors include the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award (in 2006); recognition – with Bell – as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music (by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky); and induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (2017).
His passing was just over a year after Delia Bell passed away.
We will share information about the funeral and memorial gathering as and when that information is known.
Also, we aim to bring a remembrance and career overview in due course.
R.I.P., Bill Grant
***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ ***** ~ *****
Bluegrass Legend Bill Grant Inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
by STACY HUTTO
Choctaw tribal member and Bluegrass legend Bill Grant (right) holds up his trophy after being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 25. Grant has been an influence to many musicians during his lifetime. After seeing a bluegrass festival put on by Bill Monroe, Grant brought the first one to Hugo. The Hugo festival was the first bluegrass festival west of the Mississippi. Former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Board Member Virgil Bonham (center) along with Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair (left) inducted Grant into the Music Hall of Fame.
Fans of bluegrass music filled the Bill Grant Civic Center in Hugo for Bill Grant Presents Bluegrass on the Kiamichi Trace on Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25. The two-day festival officially started at noon both days and ended at 10 p.m., but bluegrass filled the air hours before the festival started.
Bluegrass legend and Choctaw tribal member Bill Grant performed the second day of the festival with his band and his stepdaughter Amy Patrick. After his set, Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Jim Blair took the stage and introduced Board Member and Bill Grant’s former Kiamichi Mountain Boys band mate, Virgil Bonham.
Bonham spoke about his dad coming home from a bluegrass festival in Hugo in 1969 and saying they had to go back next year because it was an awesome event. The following year Bonham slept under a station wagon and they stayed the night.
While Bonham’s dad and uncle were playing they met Grant. After the festival the three men got together and formed the Kiamichi Mountain Boys and Bonham said at 11-years-old he cut his first record with Bill Grant.
“Virgil was about this tall (hip height) and standing on a box playing a big bass,” Grant told the audience.
Bonham wove a tale about the first record they cut. With hot links cooking they ate good food and did some picking. They wrote a few tunes. Emmylou Harris recorded one of them, “Roses in the Snow,” and it became a country hit. Another song from that session, “Stairway to Heaven,” continues to be performed by Grant to this day.
For Bonham, the day was an honor because Grant gave a 10-year-old boy a chance to play on a stage and write songs, which Bonham continues to do as part of the Bonham Review and Hankerin’ 4 Hank, a Hank Williams tribute band.
He credits Grant with being a musical influence. He said Grant was his influence to play the mandolin. Until he met Grant he thought he’d play the bass fiddle, but to this day he continues to play the mandolin.
Grant has influenced many musicians besides Bonham. Among those who credit Grant’s influence are Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley and many more.
Bonham mentioned that as a member of Choctaw Nation, Grant has done wonders for the tribe and the recognition Grant brings back to the tribe is nothing but positive.
After speaking about Grant, Bonham said, “Bill, it is my honor to be the one to hand you this trophy, and I would like to induct you into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.”
Grant, a soft-spoken, humble man, accepted the award from Bonham.
“You sure know how to make a country boy proud. I can’t hardly express words to say what is in my heart,” Grant said.
He talked about being in Muskogee while the Music Hall of Fame was being built and someone telling him he might be in there one day. “I said I doubt it, but it’d be nice and it is nice,” Grant said.
Before exiting the stage Grant said, “Thank you very much. God bless you and thank you one more time.”
In addition to being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, Grant has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame, awarded the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his contribution to bluegrass as a promoter, songwriter and performer, and the Oklahoma Arts Council created a special recognition award for Grant’s support of the arts in Oklahoma.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
