Bluegrass

Bluegrass music is a type of American roots music, that was inspired by immigrants, strongly rooted by Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in Appalachia. Traditionally Bluegrass consisted of mostly stringed instruments, like the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, accoustic guitar, stand-up bass and a resonator guitar, popularily known as a dobro.

Modern Bluegrass often incorporates electrified instrumens, drums, harmonica, autoharp, piano and/or accordian. Bluegrass first became popular in the mid 1940's, and though no one person can claim credit for inventing it, Bill Monroe and his band the Blue Grass Boys, are most responsible for it's name.