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Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a subgenre of country music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of Appalachia . [1] It has mixed roots in Irish , Scottish , Welsh , and English [2] traditional music, and also later influenced by the music of African-Americans [3] through incorporation of jazz elements.
He has also won multiple regional championships including the South Carolina State and West Virginia State Flat-pick Guitar championships, the Merlefest Flat-pick guitar championship, and the Ossipee Music Festival's New England Guitar Championship. He is a two-time winner of the Wayne Henderson Bluegrass Festival Guitar championship.
MerleFest is an annual "traditional plus" music festival held in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on the campus of Wilkes Community College.The festival, which is held the last weekend in April, was hosted by Grammy Award winner Doc Watson prior to his death and is named in memory and honor of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985.
Here are six things to do this weekend ... serving as the permanent host of the nationally syndicated TV show "Bluegrass Ridge." The music starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased ...
WIS-TV’s coverage begins at 10 a.m. and will reach 40 of South Carolina’s 46 counties. In Lexington, the Snowball Festival begins Thursday and runs through Sunday with crafts, a carolighting ...
Stompin 76 Music Festival Official Website. Stompin 76 Music Festival was known as "the Woodstock of Bluegrass ". [1] The 3 day camp-out music festival took place from Friday through to Sunday, August 6, 7, and 8 in 1976, eight miles north of Galax, VA at the New River Jam Site, owned by the Lawson family. [2]
Bluegrass Underground is a musical television show taped live at The Caverns in the base of Monteagle Mountain. From 2008 to 2018, it was held in Cumberland Caverns. [2] In 2011, it became a nationally syndicated television show airing on PBS. [1] The program also aired weekly on the AM radio station WSM. [3]
This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass bands.A bluegrass band is a group of musicians who play acoustic stringed instruments, typically some combination of guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dobro and upright bass, to perform bluegrass music.