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Bluegrass is a combination of many styles originating in America, Europe and Africa. But bluegrass is considered American. Ask bluegrass players wh...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 24, 2009
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
When you play bluegrass banjo, you can use a combination of formulas and invented playing techniques. You put a lot of sweat equity in learning the...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 14, 2009
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
So many players get started by imitating what they've heard. They just have to make that pretty sound. But in the process of learning, the music ch...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 10, 2009
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
Over the short history of bluegrass, its audience has changed from rural to urban. It broke off from the country music industry. It grew from a reg...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 1
Every music tradition changes over time, including bluegrass. It’s natural think that change means it gets more complex. But sometimes, the old stu...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: May 16, 2009
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Apr 21, 2009
- Length: 08:11
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Apr 11, 2009
- Length: 07:48
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KZYX, and WAMU
- Added: Mar 29, 2009
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 3
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 29, 2009
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 16, 2009
- Length: 07:13
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Mar 16, 2009
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multipl...
- Added: Feb 26, 2009
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 2
weekly 5 - 8 minute feature with song bits unified by commentary over music beds on a bluegrass topic.
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 2
The Stanley sound is an important approach to bluegrass, pioneered by brothers Ralph and Carter Stanley. The piece shows what makes it up and tells...
- Added: Jan 28, 2009
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass is a weekly 5-7 minute module. Each investigates a bluegrass topic through selected music clips and commentary.
- Added: Jan 23, 2009
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 2
Weekly module relating to bluegrass / old time music.
- Added: Jan 09, 2009
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 2
piece suggested for Dec 13 - 19, 2008
- Added: Dec 05, 2008
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 2
The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument with the greatest tradition. Gems #850 depicts one of the favored fiddle effects, that of two fiddles playin...
- Added: Dec 02, 2008
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 3
program suggested for Nov 22 - 28
- Added: Nov 15, 2008
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 05:54
- Purchases: 4
piece suggested for Nov 1 - 7, 2008
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 2
piece suggested for October 24 - 30, 2008
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
piece suggested for Oct 18 - 24, 2008
- Added: Oct 06, 2008
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
piece suggested for Oct 4-10, 2008
- Added: Sep 27, 2008
- Length: 08:02
- Purchases: 2
piece suggested for September 27 - October 3, 2008
- Added: Sep 16, 2008
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 2
