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The Kentucky Bluegrass AllStars are a group of music students who take lessons at the museum. The Video Oral History Project (VOHP) – videotapes the elderly first generation of bluegrass musicians. Bluegrass in the Schools (BITS) – puts instruments into the hands of students and teachers in elementary schools in Daviess County, Kentucky.
Homer C. Ledford (September 26, 1927 – December 11, 2006) was an instrument maker and bluegrass musician from Kentucky He is best known for his craftsmanship in building dulcimers. [ 1 ] Early life and education
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.
Traditional bluegrass, as the name implies, emphasizes the traditional elements of bluegrass music, and stands in contrast to progressive bluegrass.Traditional bluegrass musicians play folk songs, tunes with simple traditional chord progressions, and on acoustic instruments of a type that were played by bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys band in the late 1940s.
The American Folk Music Festival, established by Jean Bell Thomas in 1930, was held almost annually in Ashland, Kentucky and at various Kentucky state parks until 1972. [ 38 ] For five days during the first week of August each year, the Appalachian String Band Music Festival [ 50 ] is held in Clifftop, West Virginia .
Wylie Caudill holds a bottle of Woodford Reserve’s commemorative 2024 Kentucky Derby bourbon, featuring his art work, during a press conference at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday ...
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 .
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