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This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass musicians. For bands, see the List of bluegrass bands . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
So, who are the best bluegrass bands? Any list of bluegrass artists has to include names of famous male and female bluegrass singers, including Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nickel Creek, and the Stanley Brothers.
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. [1]
Browse the top bluegrass artists to find new music. Scrobble songs to get recommendations on tracks you'll love.
Find an Artist. This web site contains short profiles of the best-known bluegrass artists and bands. Use the Search Band or Artist function located at the top of the sidebar on the right to find an artist by name.
Here is a list of bluegrass artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the bluegrass genre. You can find out what bluegrass genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.
The sound of Bluegrass has a long, rich history, rooted in the Appalachian mountains as well as the Great Brittain. So many talented artists have graced the stage, solo, and in groups. But today, I’ll focus on my top 20 Bluegrass bands of all time.
This web site contains short profiles of the best known bluegrass artists and bands. I began compiling this material back in 1988 for bluegrass radio announcers like myself who want to at least sound knowledgeable about the music they play.
Bill Monroe is often credited as the most influential figure of Bluegrass. In fact, his band The Bluegrass Boys is where the genre gets its name from, referring to a slang term (Kentucky Bluegrass) for a type of grass called Poa Pratensis.
Led by Bill Monroe, these musicians adhered to the songs, structures, and conventions of string bands, but they made the music faster, harder, and more technically demanding. The result was bluegrass; the genre was named after Bill Monroe's backing band, the Blue Grass Boys.