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Telluride Bluegrass Festival is an annual music festival in Telluride, Colorado hosted by Planet Bluegrass. Although traditionally the festival focuses on bluegrass music , [ 1 ] it often features music from a variety of related genres.
Steep Canyon Rangers is an American bluegrass band based in Asheville and Brevard, North Carolina. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally formed in 2000, the band has become widely known since 2009 for collaborating with actor/banjoist Steve Martin .
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 the 1960s and 1970s, Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys included singer and instrumentalist Gloria Belle, who is considered the first female lead singer in bluegrass. [4] [5] She toured Japan with Martin during 1975. [6] In regards to her playing, Martin said jokingly, "She's not very good, but we let her sing with us 'cause we feel sorry ...
Carter Stanley joined the Blue Grass Boys as guitarist for a short time in 1951 during a period when The Stanley Brothers had temporarily disbanded. On January 16, 1953, Monroe was critically injured in a two-car wreck. [1] He and "Bluegrass Boys" bass player, Bessie Lee Mauldin, were returning home from a fox hunt north of Nashville. On ...
In 1963 he became a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. [2] Keith's recordings and performances during these nine months with Monroe permanently altered banjo playing, and his style became an important part of the playing styles of many banjoists. After leaving the Bluegrass Boys, he joined the Jim Kweskin Jug Band playing plectrum banjo. [1]
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The Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys; Balsam Range; Barry Scott & Second Wind; Bearfoot (American band) Béla Fleck and the Flecktones; The Beyman Bros; Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys; The Biscuit Burners; Black Jake and The Carnies; Blue Highway; Blue Merle; Blue Rose (band) The Blue Sky Boys; BlueBilly Grit; Bluegrass Album Band ...