Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys
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Bluegrass music is a distinctive American genre that has been around for over a century. It emerged in the southern Appalachian Mountains and combines traditional folk music with influences from blues, jazz, and even rock and roll. With its high-energy tempos, intricate harmonies, and rapid picking of stringed instruments like the banjo, fiddle, and mandolin,
Once it even hints at spring weather, music fans start investigating the concerts and festivals they want to attend in the upcoming year.
Alice Gerrard has been a musician, researcher, publisher, and advocate for old-time music for much of her life. She's best known for performing and recording bluegrass and country with West Virginian, Hazel Dickens. Alice produced Sprout Wings and Fly, a film about North Carolina fiddler Tommy Jarrell. Her introduction to old-time music happened at Antioch College in the 1950s with husband Jeremy Foster and friends. The couple soon moved to the D.C.-Baltimore area for work and found a community of traditional musicians and their followers. Alice Gerrard recalled those days.
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