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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]
The name "Kentucky" likely comes from the word for "meadow lands" in Iroquoian, but has several other possible origins. [citation needed] Europeans adopted the name to apply to the state. "Bluegrass" is a common name given in the United States for grass of the Poa genus, the most famous being the Kentucky bluegrass. [7]
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.
Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment in Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, and Nelson counties of central Kentucky [1] separating the Bluegrass on the north and north-east from the Pennyrile on the south and south-west. This escarpment fades into the Pottsville Escarpment on the east and terminates at the Ohio River in the west.
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 ...
Bill Monroe - mandolinist and "The Father of Bluegrass", [5] whose band ("Blue Grass Boys") is the namesake of the musical genre; Ricky Skaggs - Grammy-winning country and bluegrass musician; David Grisman - creator of the "Dawg music" style, blending bluegrass, jazz, folk, and Old World music; Sam Bush - leading the Newgrass or Progressive ...
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