bluegrass

The musical and cultural palates of suburban teenagers couldn't digest bluegrass, boogie boogie, delta rules or other mature folk sounds.

While Lovefest was indeed this weekend, so was Oktoberfest, the Fillmore Food and Wine festival, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries.

There's been a big rise in bluegrass and country inspired jam bands as of late although they're mostly living in the foothills or Tahoe.

The Bluegrass festival was free, outside, and featured some amazing music.

Then take another decade to become a top-flight Bluegrass banjo player.

I put some full-band bluegrass tunes through it and it pretty much caught every note.

I go to the occasional bluegrass or folk festival full of beginning and intermediate players.

I've just started working on a statistical approach to generate banjo arrangements in the style of Earl Scruggs, father of bluegrass banjo.

You probably have other examples anyway, but I wouldn't consider learning bluegrass songs via youtube videos as a use of social media.

However I recently took up the violin so that I could learn to fiddle and play some bluegrass and Irish folk tunes.

I don't play pedal steel, but I live in the city, and I've got a Martin 6-string and a fondness for bluegrass and acoustic music.

(I live in NJ, I have Bluegrass, 6-zones in my sprinkler system) About "Watering deeply and infrequently": I thought 30 minutes per zone, 2x/week accomplished that.

And the privilege of jamming along with one of your musical idols is not something one expects to be paid for; indeed, a relatively modern innovation in folk and bluegrass is the formal "music camp", where the students pay for this privilege.

If you're just getting into it, the most famous is most likely the "Sourthern Journey" from 59-60 which has all types of field recordings, gospel, blues, bluegrass, folk, hollers, etc.

Mike Pinto, Greensky Bluegrass, The Devil Makes Three, JJ Grey & Mofro, Jack Johnson, Dirty Heads...

Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bluegrass), Red Hat amphitheater, and Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts (including Meymandi Concert Hall, Fletcher Opera Theater, Kennedy Theater, Memorial Auditorium), etc.