Their musical genre is Bluegrass / Folk-Rock with great harmonies and very witty stage patter.

Like Bill Monroe ’ s Bluegrass Boys, the band provided the name to its musical genre, " Dutchman Music ".

There are roaming ground entertainers across the fairgrounds, staged entertainment acts in Kiddieland Fun Park and outside the Expo Center, as well as continuous musical performances on the Bluegrass and Waterfall stages.

These similar musical infusions yielded related results in both: a grass-roots rural guitar-based musical tradition, becoming Bluegrass and Country in the US, in Argentina Folklore and Pampas music.

The band has drawn on many musical influences, but are best known as a secular gospel collective of east coast musicians dedicated to songwriting, Old-Time Music, Bluegrass Music, Country Music, Rock and Roll Music, live music played in expected, as well as unexpected venues in expected, as well as unexpected ways, recorded music, and are " Known best for rowdy, energetic live shows ," the group is mainly a touring and live-performance act in the U. S. and Europe.

Like Křesťan, he moved from emulative beginnings to a style that is less indebted to Bluegrass, though his band has always maintained the traditional bluegrass instrumental lineup and a lot of its musical affect.

* Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music.

Examples of the form are " Bluegrass Breakdown " by Bill Monroe as well as " Earl's Breakdown " and " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", both of which were written by Earl Scruggs.

Third generation Bluegrass developed in the mid-1980s.

The steep cliffs surrounding the Kentucky River harbor the largest concentration of forest within the Inner Bluegrass, which is otherwise developed or cleared.

Bluegrass developed in the 1940s from a mixture of several types of music, including old-time and country.

In addition, there are several events and fairs that draw people from throughout the Bluegrass.

Many older Bluegrass songs come directly from the British Isles.

Several Appalachian Bluegrass ballads, such as Pretty Saro, Barbara Allen, Cuckoo Bird and House Carpenter, come from England and preserve the English ballad tradition both melodically and lyrically.

A second generation of Bluegrass musicians began performing, composing and recording in the mid-to late-1960s, although many had played in first generation bands from a young age.

Bluegrass grew, matured and broadened from the music played in previous years.

Three establishments in Floyd regularly offer a variety of live music during the weekends ranging from traditional styles such as Bluegrass to contemporary and alternative acts.

Mail and supplies reached Johnson County from the Bluegrass region by horseback and steamboat.

On the last weekend of every July, the town hosts the Anderson Bluegrass Festival, which lasts from Friday through Sunday.

It is a privately owned campground, where people from all over can bring their RV's, pop-ups, and listen to the melodic sounds of Bluegrass Music.

Mount Airy's WPAQ 740 AM radio is one of the few Bluegrass and Old-Time music stations still operating and has been airing the live radio show Merry-Go-Round from the Downtown Cinema Theatre since 1948.

* Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley is from Dickenson County and lives on Sandy Ridge in the mountains that surround Clintwood.

A second Moody Bluegrass album entitled Two ... Much Love with a further 16 Moody Blues songs will include guest performances from Hayward, Lodge and Edge, ( each of whom is credited as the lead on one song ) plus Thomas and Pinder, making this the first time since 1978 that these five musicians all appeared on one newly-recorded album.

* lyrics and background from the Bluegrass Messengers

The Pennyroyal is bordered on the north by Muldraugh Hill, the geological escarpment that forms the transition from the geologically older Bluegrass to the Pennyroyal.

The Wilderness Road branched off from the Great Wagon Road at present-day Roanoke, Virginia, crossed the Cumberland Gap and led to Kentucky and Tennessee, especially the fertile Bluegrass region and Nashville Basin.

On January 22, 2009, Berman announced via the official Drag City messageboard that he planned to retire from music and that the Silver Jews would play their final show on Bluegrass Underground at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tennessee at 3 pm on January 31, 2009.

The name Kentucky Bluegrass derives from its flower heads, which are blue when the plant is allowed to grow to its natural height of two to three feet.

By 1800 farms began noticing that horses who grazed in the Bluegrass region were more durable than those from other regions-this is due to the high content of calcium in the soil.

* Sam Bush Bluegrass Hall of Fame inductee from Bowling Green, Kentucky

Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment in central Kentucky separating the Bluegrass on the north and north-east from the Pennyrile on the south and south-west.

In 2004, she recorded her first studio album in 12 years, The Bluegrass Sessions, a Bluegrass album that consisted of Anderson's major hits from the 60s and 70s re-recorded in a Bluegrass format.

At Kentucky's Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Pennyrile in the south, there are many spectacular cliffs, gorges, rockhouses, natural bridges, and waterfalls.

This style is called Progressive Southern Gospel and is characterized by a blend of traditional Southern Gospel, Bluegrass, modern country, contemporary Christian and pop music elements.

All three of these albums saw the band returning toward the sound of the Bluegrass Evolution album, incorporating more country elements, with Crowe even playing electric guitar more than banjo on " Somewhere Between ".

" Variously described as alt-country, old-time, Americana and " folk / country ", according to Gabrielle Gray, executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum which sponsors ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival ( which Old Crow headlined one night in 2012 ), " is in the direction of progressive bluegrass.

Bluegrass quickly grew in popularity among numerous musicians in Appalachia, including the Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers, and Jimmy Martin, and although it was influenced by various music forms from inside and outside the region ( Monroe himself was from Western Kentucky ), it is often associated with Appalachia and performed alongside old-time and traditional music at Appalachian folk festivals.

Bluegrass bassist Mark Schatz, who teaches slap bass in his Intermediate Bluegrass Bass DVD acknowledges that slap bass "... has not been stylistically very predominant in the music I have recorded.

Taking part the first full weekend of June is the Festival of the Bluegrass, Kentucky's oldest bluegrass music festival.

Bluegrass, also known as " hillbilly music ," was inspired by the music of Appalachia.

Bluegrass music has attracted a diverse following worldwide.

Bluegrass tunes can largely be described as narratives on the everyday lives of the people whence the music came.

Originally Bluegrass style was included in the category of folk music and later changed to hillbilly and in 1948 bluegrass was placed under the country / western heading for radio airplay charting.

" Bluegrass fused with jazz in the music of Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Tony Rice, Sam Bush, Doc Watson, and others.

* Folk & Bluegrass Music Forum-Discuss, share and learn about folk and bluegrass music.

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* Vernon Crawford " Jack " Cooke – Bluegrass music, vocalist and instrumentalist

* Sally ( Sandker ) Berry and Tensel Sandker, members of Bluegrass music group Next Best Thing.

File: QueenCityMo4. jpg | Sign directing attendees to Sally Mountain Park, site of a large Bluegrass music festival hosted annually by Rhonda Vincent and her family.

The same fire department also hosts the annual Troutdale Old-Time and Bluegrass Music Festival every September, with music presented by the Big Country Bluegrass Band.