Morehead State University Bluegrass Program Surprises Steve Cooley With a Scholarship With His Name On It

Steve Cooley is a veteran of the Louisville, Kentucky, bluegrass scene that has played with many of the greats of the genre over his extended music career. He was lucky enough to be around back in the days when Sam Bush was on the Louisville scene when J.D. Crowe still played the hotel bars in that Ohio River city and steadily in nearby Lexington, and when Béla Fleck first came to town.  Cooley also did stints with the Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe, The Dillards, Katie Laur, The Bluegrass Alliance, and more top acts while playing the banjo and the guitar. These days, he plays the banjo with the Common Loon Records act the Bibelhauser Brothers band. It was while Cooley was onstage with the Bibelhauser Brothers recently that an odd thing happened, something he could not have predicted in a hundred years.  “We were scheduled to play an event at Ashbourne Farms, which is in Oldham County, near La Grange, Kentucky, and east of Louisville on I-71,” said Cooley. “We w