Bill Monroe Father of Bluegrass Music - 1993 TV was released on:
USA: 31 May 1993
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.
Apex music appreciation answer is Earl Scruggs
Bluegrass is a sub-genre of country music that relies heavily on acoustic stringed instruments. Its five major instruments are the fiddle, the guitar, the mandolin, the five string banjo, and the upright bass.
The address of the Bill Monroe'S Memorial Music And Campgr is: 5163 N State Road 135, Morgantown, IN 46160-8898
This question could be open for much debate. If you are looking at "bluegrass" music, then it is undeniably Bill Monroe. Sometimes the argument arises that the instruments used in Bluegrass where around before Monroe, but it was indeed Bill Monroe that took those instruments and combined them into the core group of instruments that are still used in Bluegrass today. Monroe experimented with several combinations of instruments, even the accordion, before settling with mandolin, bass, guitar, banjo and fiddle.
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 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.
Apex music appreciation answer is Earl Scruggs
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.
Bluegrass music was developed in the late 40's by Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs who provided Bluegrass' hard driving sound. Bluegrass was a refinement of 'Old Timey' music which was a evolution of folk music brought by immigrants to the Appalachian mountains. As time went on songs that came from such countries as Ireland and Scotland became the basis of songs that were sung and played with instruments such as guitars, fiddles, and banjos. Eventually, new songs would be written in the manner of which we know as Bluegrass Music today.
Some of the most famous artists of Bluegrass Gospel music would include Ricky Skaggs, as well as Bill Monroe and Patty Loveless. Someone can find a full listing of the various artists that have recorded Bluegrass Gospel music at Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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.
Research has shown that Bill Monroe's claim to fame is that he was the one who created the music that is known as bluegrass. His performing career spanned a period of sixty years.
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