Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre that developed in the US, in the 1940s, and has roots in traditional English, Scottish, and Irish ballads, along with…

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.

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.

See previously unreleased archival photos, and listen to an exclusive preview of a new Smithsonian Folkways album that puts fans in the audience at one of the bluegrass pioneer’s early concerts

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

The Top Bluegrass Music jam sessions standards you HAVE to know #Banjo #Bluegrass #Banjolesson #HughesMusic #OnlineLessons #AtlantaBanjo

Bluegrass and Folk Music....