Inside the arena, bluegrass music plays, and the crowd is led in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Bill Monroe had been recording and refining bluegrass music since 1945.
New Jersey is not known as a hot bed of bluegrass music, so the group Railroad Earth is sort of an oddity in the Garden State.
"When the singer came to the end of a phrase, he filled the theatre with sparkling runs of notes that became a signature for all bluegrass music since, " he said.
Growing up in Atlanta I heard much more blues and bluegrass than jazz music, though I was most excited to learn to play jazz when I was growing up.
Sara Watkins has had a lot to do with the resurgence of bluegrass-inspired popular music.
Watson, who died on Tuesday at age 89, is most closely associated with the melodic style of flatpicking that cemented the guitar's role as a solo voice in bluegrass and acoustic country music.
Just as the music switches to bluegrass courtesy of the Friday Night Oldtime Band, rain begins to hammer on the windows.
Watson, who jumped onto the music scene in the early 1960s, is considered influential among folk musicians for his brand of bluegrass, blues, country and gospel music.
Fans of the project, such as music journalist Jon Weisberger of No Depression Magazine, say Moody Bluegrass shows a genuine respect for the material and that the result is powerful and fun.
The music they make has an underlying warmth that comes from the origins of bluegrass, country, blues and African-American gospel.
She has pretty much carved out a music career single-handedly, becoming something of a darling of the folk-bluegrass-country set.
应用推荐