guardian.co.uk meldet:
Bluegrass is Kentucky's official state music, and Bill "Big Mon" Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky, along with Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home are the official state songs. Both drop the perfect soundtrack for driving through the rolling pasturelands of, er, Kentucky bluegrass, and the eastern Appalachian mountains, where the scenery shouts BANJO, albeit with a twang! Bill Monroe pioneered the genre in the 40s with his Bluegrass Boys, playing speeded-up banjo and fiddle-led, foot-tapping country music, which drew on traditional Celtic and English music brought over by the protestant Irish (the Scotch-Irish, as they say here). There's live bluegrass music at the Bluegrass Brewing Company in Louisville, and the annual River of Music Party (ROMP) in Owensboro in July, featuring bluegrass legends such as Doc Watson and Lance LeRoy. For background on all things bluegrass, visit the International Bluegrass Music Museum at Owensboro.
Quelle: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/apr/30/kentucky-derby-visitor-guid...
http://www.bluegrass-museum.org/

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