I'd like to know if there are any (hopefully many)
Bluegrass Music fans out there.

I met and briefly hung out with the music's originator**, Bill Monroe, the day I saw Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys back in 1988.

Last year alone, I saw and met quite a few of Bluegrass Music's major stars - they're all
great musicians, and most of 'em are great
people as well.

So, if there are any Bluegrass Music fans out there, I'd like to hear from ya, and tell me
who your favorite Bluegrass artists are.


**FYI - Bluegrass is not folk music. It's a documented historical fact that it was
invented by Bill Monroe over the course
of years of experimentation, which, in 1945
resulted in the sound he was looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GVF-H1idfI&feature=related

I love Blue Grass, I like Bill Monroe and the Blue grass boys, the Isaacs,and the Easters. I really do like all of them but, these are my favorites

That is an excellent site, thank you

enjoy! lots of really wonderful and rare performances on youtube
i like to listen to some of them in the background when i'm on
the puter......

Alison Krauss & Rhonda Vincent

Hayseed Dixie

Theres a bluegrass program that comes on every sunday morning, i normally get up to listen to it =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdgrfr0Bkk

Hayseed Dixie kick ass,

Yonder Mountain String Band!!!!!!!!!

it's interesting that i went to blue grass festival while back--these old musicians can really play--and i do miss listening to the bluegrass nowadays--

I'm going to a Bluegrass show being held on a farm tomorrow; and Sept. 6, I'm going to a Bluegrass festival on top of a hill literally out in the middle of nowhere - it's the perfect down-home atmosphere.

Nice October 18th I'm having 3 bands out to my property for my mom's 63 b-day!!! Garage Grass, Secondary Cherry and one I have to keep secret!!!hehehehe

I like Bluegrass. My late husband really got me interested in it, but some guys I went to high school with had a bluegrass band and they were pretty good. I like Doyle Lawson & Quick Silver, The Lewis Famiy, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Mountain Heart, just to name a few. I know the Lewis Family personally and have met Doyle. It's cool you posted this Pete. Have a good time at the Bluegrass Festival. Where is it? I heard about one around here somewhere. There was one here back in July, but I didn't get to go.

I love love LOVE "true" bluegrass music...talk about toe-tapping and knee-slapping music, eh?

Most modern-day fans of mainstream bluegrass are unaware that this genre of music was spawned from Ireland, England and Scotland...as well as African American blues and gospel music...*OH GASP*

IMHO, heartfelt and experienced bluegrass musicians can be detected within the first few notes...much like the blues...and if it ain't there...time to spin another CD or turn the channel.

On that note...I'll clog on down the dusty country road with Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Roy Clark, Vassar Clements, Ricky Scaggs, Jimmy Martin, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Josh Graves, Alison Krauss...and let's not ever forget and always remember...DOC WATSON!

Bluegrass is great!

I went to a Bluegrass show on a farm in Suffield, CT yesterday, and I had the some real fun for the first time in recent memory (check my profile for details). Nice setting, good music, and these two young women came over to me and TOLD me I was getting up to dance with them. We didn't know what the hell we were doing, and we were the only ones out there, but it was hilarious to say the least.
Sept. 6, I'm going to the Hartland Hollow Bluegrass Festival in East Hartland, CT. It's held in a pavilion with a stage attached for the event in a ball field in the middle of "East Nowhere". Mostly New England area Bluegrass bands - Bluegrass has a surprisingly loyal following up this way. I can't wait!