How did bluegrass start?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Bill Monroe is generally credited with creating Bluegrass music in the 1940's mixing back country and "hillbilly" music to create the style familiar as Bluegrass Music. Bill Monroe is generally credited with creating Bluegrass music in the 1940's mixing back country and "hillbilly" music to create the style familiar as Bluegrass Music.

Answer 3

Bluegrass music dates back to the early 1600's, when people migrated to America and brought music and blues with them. The slaves from Africa invented the design for the banjo, which is essential to bluegrass music.

Bluegrass became known in the Country Music genre when Bill Monroe, later named the father of Bluegrass music, played in the 1920's and 1930's with the band which was later named, "Bill Monroe and the the Blue Grass Boys."

Answer 4

In the 1600's, the Irish, Scottish, and English settlers who migrated to America brought their traditional music along with them. The music reflected their lives in the hills or on the farm and was called "mountain music" or "country music". In the 1920's - 1930's a band called "The Monroe Brothers" was quite popular, but Charlie and Bill Monroe chose to part ways in 1938 and begin their own bands. Since Bill Monroe was native to Kentucky, known as "The Bluegrass State", the name of his band was "Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys". Bill became known as the pioneer for bluegrass music, a new form of the "traditional" country music.

Answer 5

It got its name from the Bluegrass that grows in Kentucky, because many early bluegrass musicians had roots to Kentucky, hope this helped

Answer 6

Bluegrass music originated in the backwoods of West Virginia and other states in America.

Answer 7

Around the 1940's I think.