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Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 3, 2010 at 9:35am

Thanks Chris..Great & famous musicians gather together...united in MUSIC!...beautiful indeed...

Comment by ۞♥iLOVEi♥۞ on October 2, 2010 at 6:59pm

..wonderful...a lot of great musicians,they're having fun..lol..wish i can play those instruments...amazing music..

Comment by Chris Magad on October 2, 2010 at 4:32pm

Beautiful sound ,Thanks for the share

Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 1, 2010 at 6:54am

Bluegrass
Stylistic origins Country music, Anglo-Celtic music, Appalachian folk music, Blues, Jazz
Cultural origins Mid to late 1940s United States
Typical instruments Fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin, resonator guitar, and upright bass
Mainstream popularity originally eastern Midwest US and Southeast US, but now diffused throughout US, and in other countries, especially Japan and parts of Europe.
Subgenres
Progressive bluegrass - Traditional bluegrass - Neo-Traditional Bluegrass
Fusion genres
Jam band
Regional scenes
Czech Republic
Other topics
Musicians - Hall of Honor

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has roots in Scottish, English, Welsh[citation needed] and Irish[citation needed] traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the United Kingdom and Ireland (particularly the Scotch-Irish immigrants in Appalachia), and African-Americans,[citation needed] particularly through genres such as jazz and blues. In bluegrass, as in some forms of jazz, one or more instruments each takes its turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others perform accompaniment; this is especially typified in tunes called breakdowns. This is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Traditional bluegrass is typically based on a small set of acoustic stringed instruments including mandolin, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, resonator guitar and upright bass, with or without vocals. Bluegrass music has attracted a diverse and extremely loyal following worldwide. Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe characterized the genre: "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound. It's plain music that tells a good story. It's played from my heart to your heart, and it will touch you. Bluegrass is music that matters."Creation


Bluegrass artists use a variety of stringed instruments.
Bluegrass as a style developed during the mid-1940s. Because of war rationing, recording was limited during that time, and it would be most accurate to say that bluegrass was played some time after World War II, but no earlier. As with any musical genre, no one person can claim to have "invented" it. Rather, bluegrass is an amalgam of old-time music, country, ragtime and jazz.