Bluegrass music

The History of bluegrass music begins with Scottish and English migrants who brought with them the music that form the basis of modern bluegrass.

You don???t need a lengthy exposition on the underdog grace of its humble Appalachian roots and its transparent threads of connection to American history, as deep as a seam of coal in a mountainside. You totally get the genre???s visceral sincerity so important to millennials, who in their relentless search for authenticity often find themselves grasping back to their Greatest Generation great-grandparents??? traditions for anchors.

Bluegrass and Folk Music....

The Bluegrass family of instruments include: fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, string bass, dobro, autoharp, and vocal harmonies (Mills). The five string banjo is the instrument used most to produce the driving syncopated rhythm common in Bluegrass music (Smith). The banjo is most often the telltale characteristic of Bluegrass music. Many Bluegrass songs are based on 3 chords: G, C, and D (Nold), making the songs relatively simple, and easy for the musician to comprehend.

This forest animal bluegrass band is playing their own secret concert!

Mount Bluegrass!

Greensky Bluegrass

Here are 10 beginner bluegrass banjo songs for the beginning bluegrass banjo player. Get these tunes under your fingers and jam with others.

Read "Kentucky's Bluegrass Music" by James C. Claypool available from Rakuten Kobo. It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass musi...

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