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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.
Songcatcher is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald.It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina.
The record earned the Lawrence County native and Kentucky Music and Bluegrass Hall of Famer one of his 15 Grammy Awards, cemented the scholarly string music command of his Kentucky Thunder band.
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. [1] The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys . [ 2 ]
Netflix has a fantastic collection of documentaries or docuseries, from gripping true-crime tales to eye-opening environmental exposés to intimate looks into the lives of your favorite musical ...
From March 27 through April 12, Sollee was named the music director of a play directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh titled "That High Lonesome Sound" which displays the rich history of Kentucky and its bluegrass music. The play was written by Jeff Augustin, Diana Grisanti, Cory Hinkle, and Charise Castro Smith and was performed by the Actors Theatre ...
Nothing makes me cry like a good documentary.There's a new one on Netflix, titled Daughters, that features a father-daughter dance between young girls and their incarcerated loved ones.The film ...
Roscoe Holcomb (born Roscoe Halcomb; [1] September 5, 1912 – February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky.A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, [2] Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound", coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen.