Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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. [1]
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
Bluegrass artists use a variety of stringed instruments. Bluegrass as a distinct musical form developed from elements of old-time music and traditional music in the Appalachian region of the United States. The Appalachian region was where many Scottish American immigrants settled, bringing with them the musical traditions of their homelands.
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.
Here is a look at three area creatives at various stages of making names for themselves beyond the Bluegrass. ... Reserve’s commemorative 2024 Kentucky Derby bourbon, featuring his art work ...
Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass. Little, Brown and Company. p. 23. ISBN 0-316-80381-2. Arnold Shultz. Lightfoot, William (2015). A Regional Music Style: The Legacy of Arnold Shultz. The University of Kentucky Press. Ewing, Tom (2018-09-07). Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man. University ...
Aug. 21—over the yearsWAYNE TOWNSHIP — The annual Wayne Bluegrass Festival has moved, but an undying commitment to bluegrass music keeps them coming back for more at the Ashtabula County ...