Bluegrass

The bluegrass is a musical style considered as a branch of the Country music. its founder, Bill Monroe, originating in Rosine Kentucky (which one says that the sky gives to grass blue reflections with laying down sun, from where the name of this musical style), had been given for goal to codify and adapt to the " ears modernes" the Old Time Music which draws its source in the mountainous solid masses of the the Appalachian Mountains, music which itself with is crossed various traditions, American (blues) and European (Anglo-Irish).

Bluegrass is a music very rythmée with the vocal harmonies with 3 or 4 votes, it particularly emphasizes the musicians, of which much is true virtuosos of their instruments (Alison Krauss: violin, Douglas Jerry: Dobro); the pieces bluegrass very often alternate of the solos of instruments making it possible to the interpreters to be distinguished, in concert, in front of the public. Certain pieces known as " of bravoure" do not fail to be begun again by interpreters who want to have a name, the such famous orange blossom special (where the violin is judicious to imitate the noise of a train launched to any vapor), and duelling banjos , extracted the band of the film Délivrance.

The acoustic string instruments such as the Banjo are very characteristic of this style, accompanied by the Contrebasse which exploits times, as well as the mandoline (which exploits the hitches), the Violon and the Guitare.

It is about 1945, that Bill Monroe (1913-1996) formed its group the " bluegrass boys" , true seedbed of large instrumentalists such To ballast Flatt and Earl Scruggs, it succeeds in imposing with difficulty this musical style, strokes very about it, (as it remains it besides today) large currents of the country music of the time (Honky tonk: pessimistic ballades, on bottom of atmosphere of smoked out bar), and Western Swing (regional adaptation - mainly texane - big bands of jazz, with the mode during these years there).

Since the year 2000 and film “O' Brother”, perhaps only Hollywood film with a band, partly " old time" and " bluegrass" , one notes, in the United States, an renewed interest for this music, at the same time as it has " Re-boosté" , the musical career of the one of the interpreters, very old, of this band, Ralph Stanley.

There exists in the magic United States two places where one can listen to excellent Bluegrass:

  • first is with Nashville (Tennessee), it acts of the " Inn" station; , small box difficult to find, but large by its environment and the groups which occur there.
  • the second is the greatest festival of Bluegrass of the United States, founded in 1970, by Bill Monroe itself, it is held the every years in June, during one week, in Bean Blossom (Indiana).

Artists and groups of reference

  • Bill Monroe (1911 - 1996), mandolin player originating in Kentucky, and considered unanimously as being the father of Bluegrass (Father off Bluegrass Music). The name of this music comes from the name of its group formed in 1945: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, which included in particular:

  • To ballast Flatt (1914 - 1979), guitar
  • Earl Scruggs (1924), banjo
To ballast Flatt and Earl Scruggs left Bill Monroe in 1949, and then formed the Foggy Mountain Boys which undoubtedly contributed more to the success of Bluegrass than whoever. They were elected with the Country Music Hall off Famed in 1985).

  • The Osborne Brothers

  • Jim & Jesse McReynolds
  • Del McCoury
  • The Country Gentlemen
  • The Seldom Scene
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
  • Fatty New Revival
  • The Kentucky Colonels
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station
  • Kathy Chiavola
  • Cherryholmes
  • Ricky Skaggs

External bonds

  • Listen of Bluegrass on Pandora

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