They use similar instrument's.
While it is not often seen in a bluegrass band, they can be used. It was more common in the 1930's than it is now.
Bill Monroe named his band the Bluegrass boys. The phrase "bluegrass" was taken from the name of his band. The "bluegrass" referred to is a type of grass that grows in Kentucky.
Bluegrass music was performed by VS Band. It is a form of American roots music and a sub-genre of country music. It also has roots in Scottish, Irish, and English traditional music.
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. Nevertheless, bluegrass's beginnings can be traced to one band. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the "founding father" of bluegrass music; the bluegrass style was named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939.
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music. It has its own roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the British Isles (particularly the Scots-Irish immigrants in Appalachia), as well as jazz and blues. In bluegrass, as in jazz, each instrument takes a turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others revert to backing; 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. Bluegrass is distinctively acoustic instrumentation not using electrical instruments of any kind except for the electric bass guitar.
The Bluegrass states were North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. To remember them, know that all five states border each other and they're near the Atlantic Ocean.
The state of Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State. It is so named because there is an abundance of bluegrass that is found all over the state.
Kingston - country music band - was created in 2008.
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass state, and Bill Monroe was from Kentucky (his band was called The Blue Grass Boys), that's how it got its name.
Unleashed - Nashville Bluegrass Band album - was created in 1995-10.
The Greencards are a progressive bluegrass band that formed in Austin, Texas, and are currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Bill Monroe is known as the father of Bluegrass music, forming a band called the Blue Grass Boys in 1939, named after the state of Kentucky. Monroe's band developed a new sound said to be a combination of country, blues and gospel in the early 1940's. The first recordings and sales of the music was in 1946. The exact name of the first song has not been established. The new music genre has been called Bluegrass since the 1950's.