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Venner Folk Frühling Venne Germany [14] accent on folk 13th Oldtime Music Meeting Wippenhausen Kirchdorf Germany [15] Musicians only registration mandatory Orwell Bluegrass Festival Orwell Crossing United Kingdom [16] - Banjoree European 5-String Banjo Meeting Hagen Germany [17] Gathering of banjopickers, also with guitar and mandolin workshops.
Roscoe Holcomb (born Roscoe Halcomb; [1] September 5, 1912 – February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky.A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, [2] Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound", coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen.
The Music of Kentucky is heavily centered on Appalachian folk music and its descendants, especially in eastern Kentucky. Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in the Ohio County community of Rosine, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.e., Kentucky.
Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or recording bluegrass band and meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria for bands, or a Wikipedia article confirming its notability. For individual musicians, see the List of bluegrass musicians.
In 1953, the band signed with Blue Ridge Records and began playing traditional bluegrass. [3] They soon appeared on the Wheeling Jamboree radio barn dance show on AM station WWVA . Clifton published a songbook in 1955 called 150 Old Time Folk and Gospel Songs, which soon became one of the most influential songbooks of its time.
Molsky's Mountain Drifters; Ruthie Foster; Jayme Stone's Folklife and Lomax Project; La Cave Tap Reunion; The Defibulators; Feufollet; Don Julin's Mr. Natural Project; The Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers; Drew Nelson and Highway 2; The Bootstrap Boys; T-Mart Rounders/Milnes, Chesser, & Hill; Diff and Dudley; The Avi Lesser Jug Band ...
Clogging, buck dancing, or flatfoot dancing [1] is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm.
The song's title refers to the Cumberland Gap, a mountain pass in the Appalachian Mountains at the juncture of the states of Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. The gap was used in the latter half of the 18th century by westward-bound migrants travelling from the original 13 American colonies to the Trans-Appalachian frontier.