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A brief introduction to bluegrass music at Discover Bluegrass http://www.discoverbluegrass.com/history.asp
Bluegrass Journey, "a documentary film portrait of the contemporary bluegrass music scene", is now available on DVD and video - see the informative site at http://www.bluegrassjourney.com/index.html Artists and songs are listed.
Bluegrass Texty is a Czech site with some useful bluegrass links (and quite a lot of text in English) http://www.mujweb.cz/www/bluegrass_cz/texty.htm Tabs and sound files at http://www.mujweb.cz/www/bgtabs/
Lots of interest at Bluegrass Works site, including record reviews, MP3 samples and artist profiles http://www.bluegrassworks.com
Women In Bluegrass - not much here yet, but watch this space http://www.peonqueen.com/watchme/index.html
The official website of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, Owensboro, Kentucky http://www.bluegrassmuseum.org
Sounds of the South (courtesy of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has a brief introduction to bluegrass, also links to many other forms of roots music http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/socult/music/bluegras.htm Southern Cultures home page http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/socult/music/index.html
Bluegrass South East (UK) has lots of interest http://www.blue-grass.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
The Bluegrass Registry - "a central repository for all things bluegrass" http://www.pensonstringwerks.com/PSW/registrationMAIN.htm
Sao Paolo Bluegrass Association (in English) at http://www.bluegrass.com.br/Index_Eng.htm
BluegrassNet, "the bluegrass website for you and by you" http://www.bluegrassnet.com/
GoBluegrass has lots of links http://www.gobluegrass.com/
Cybergrass now at http://www.cybergrass.com/ Includes a Mandolin forum
Jim Moss's September 2003 Bluegrass Newsletter at http://www.candlewater.com/BLUEGRASS_NEWSLETTER/Sept2003/
Banjo in the Hollow is "dedicated to preserving and promoting bluegrass and old-time music" http://www.rtpnet.org/~bith/
Bluegrass-USA has lots of info on artists, festivals and instruments http://www.bluegrass-usa.com/
The Scottish Bluegrass Association has some interesting sound clips at http://www.scottishbluegrass.com/music.htm Home page http://www.scottishbluegrass.com/
Bluegrass audio files at SoundClick
Lots of top-quality archive pics of classic bluegrass musicians courtesy Jim Moss http://www.mossware.com/photolist.html
A miscellany of links on Ken Cort's bluegrass page, including some chord charts for bluegrass standards http://www.people.hbs.edu/kcorts/bluegrass.htm
Hundreds of links at the Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association's site http://www.valleygrass.ca/links.html
Bluegrass photos courtesy Marshall Freeland http://community.webshots.com/user/bluegrassphotos
Andy Sacher's bluegrass photos http://www.vtbluegrass.org/sacher.htm More pics courtesy Vermont Bluegrass http://www.vtbluegrass.org/vtphoto.htm Home page of Vermont Bluegrass http://vtbluegrass.org/banner.htm
History of Bean Blossom http://www.beanblossom.com/History/BBHistory.html Lots of pics at http://www.beanblossom.com/Pictures/PicturesIndex.html Bean Blossom bluegrass festival home page http://www.beanblossom.com/index.html
Bluegrass history page started by the Milwaukee Area Bluegrass Music Association at http://www.mabma.org/bluegrass_history.htm MABMA home page - some useful material on this site http://www.mabma.org/
Bluegrass discography 1942 - present
compiled by Charley Pennell - very thorough! http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/index.html
Curently 130 bluegrass discussion groups you can join at Yahoo!
Blue Grass West has lots of goodies, including the Carter Family lyrics collection, a news page and a weblog by Peter Feldmann http://www.silcom.com/~peterf/index.html And a fancier version of the site at http://odin.prohosting.com/petepro/column.html
Thursday 9 pm to midnight is bluegrass night on Mean Country radio station, live on the Internet from England with DJ Sid Griffin http://www.meancountry.com/ Sid plays bluegrass with the Coal Porters as well as having many other musical activities and interests
The Bluegrass Zone "created to bring you the current news and information about the bluegrass and roots music world" http://www.thebluegrasszone.com/ Includes the Musicians' Zone with tips on how to play better http://www.thebluegrasszone.com/musicians'zone.html
Bluegrass Breakdown on Nashville Public Radio - programs in RealAudio http://www.wpln.org/bluegrass/
Lots of useful bluegrass biographies at the D'Addario site
Lots of bluegrass links at the Alabama Bluegrass Music Association http://www.alabamabluegrass.org/
Augusta Heritage Bluegrass Week 2003 schedule http://www.augustaheritage.com/2003pages/bluegrass.html
Overview of the bluegrass style at http://www.zianet.com/elm-st-station/blu-hist.html
Lots of links to bluegrass artists' websites on the DC Bluegrass Union Calendar http://www.dcbu.org/calendar.htm DCBU home page at http://www.dcbu.org/
Some useful bluegrass links on Banjo Ben's site http://www.banjoben.com/links.htm
Some classic bluegrass photos on Community Webshots http://community.webshots.com/user/bluegrassphotos
Historical pics of Roanoke Bluegrass Festival 1967 courtesy Fred Robbins at http://idsi.net/~robbi/roanoke/
Audio Winfield - take an audio tour of the campground here! http://shorock.com/folk/wv/audio/ And Don Shorock's unofficial Walnut Valley Festival Home Page http://shorock.com/wv/
Bluegrass radio stations on Winamp http://www.shoutcast.com/waradio.phtml?genre=Bluegrass (Many other genres also available via this site.)
Bluegrass-L archives http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/bgrass-l.html
A lot of bluegrass photos and other pics at the Muckler Design Studio site eg MerleFest 2002 at http://mds.homestead.com/photopage12.html And mandolin shirt at http://mds.homestead.com/MandolShirts.html
Bluegrasstime - lots of archive pics courtesy Phil Zimmerman http://bluegrasstime.com/pages/photos.html
Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour archive of audio shows And video archives (including Ralph Stanley, Chris Thile, Del McCoury and others) Michael Jonathon's Woodsongs home page
All Music guide to bluegrass has lots of background info and links - well worth a visit
Good links to bluegrass artists' sites - click on the links in the list of performers on this page for the Thomas Point Beach Festival http://thomaspointbeach.com/bluegrass.html
"The world of Irish, Scottish, old time and bluegrass music" has lots of useful links http://musician.dyndns.org/
Bluegrass Festival Finder http://www.festivalfinder.com/bluegrass/
Bluegrass West - good bluegrass site with lots of links http://www.silcom.com/~peterf/links.htm
Mando links at ClickMusic and Bluegrass links at Click Music. Also try their home page for music related searches http://www.clickmusic.co.uk/
Dixie Bluegrass - "Dixie's online bluegrass magazine" http://www.dixiebluegrass.com/
The Bluegrass Music Club (includes pics of mandolins made by Johnny Adams) http://www.bluegrassmusicclub.com/
The Bluegrass Music Page has useful links
http://kquick.best.vwh.net/bg.html (new URL)
Pics from Midwinter and IBMA World of Bluegrass courtesy Barbara Liebler http://www.coloradocase.com/events.html
Danny Pearl was a bluegrass musician
Bluegrass radio in streaming audio plus downloadable shows from the Bluegrass Box http://www.bluegrassbox.com/
Bluegrass World for bluegrass info, news and links
http://www.bluegrassworld.com/bgwnews.html
Useful bluegrass links at Fiddler's Grove Bluegrass Show page
http://wantfm.com/bluegrass/new.html
24-hour bluegrass every day on line at Bluegrass Country
http://www.bluegrasscountry.org/
Bluegrass links at the Boston Bluegrass Union
http://www.bbu.org/links.html
Useful bluegrass links at the South Carolina Bluegrass and Traditional Music
Association
http://www.expresswebs.com/scbtma/linksto.htm
More bluegrass links at Back To Basics band site
http://www.backtobasicsbluegrass.com/links/
Bill's Bluegrass Page - some useful links from Bill Keys http://www.geocities.com/~keysfamily/bluegrass.html
Links to bluegrass and old-time music
Lots of free bluegrass MP3s by Minnesota band the Middle Spunk Creek Boys - excellent mandolin playing by Bruce Jaeger! More about the MSCBs at http://www.mscb.com/
South West Bluegrass Association in California - big site with lots of interest, links to the Bluegrass/Acoustic Music Web Ring http://www.s-w-b-a.com/index.html
Bluegrass in Galax - lots of links, old pics and events on this site http://www.bluegrassingalax.com/index.html
Search for bluegrass and other country music at MP3.com http://genres.mp3.com/music/country/
Northern California Bluegrass Society has lots of interesting pages and useful links http://www.bluegrasssociety.org/
Links to bluegrass bands http://www.bluegrassworld.com/bands/
Bluegrass Now magazine http://bluegrassnow.com/Bluegrass_Now/bgnx.html
American Music Archives "is dedicated to preserving the traditional musics of the United States through historical backdrops, biographies,discographies, information on recordings, photos, quick-time video, and sound samples" http://www.eyeneer.com/America/index.html Also check out their bluegrass artists page
The Bluegrass Connection - some useful bluegrass links at this site http://www.bluegrassville.com/
Fifth String and Co (aka Harry and Jeanie West) - bluegrass supply shop http://www.fifthstringandco.com/index.htm
Banjo tablatures and bluegrass information http://www.bluegrassbanjo.org/index.html
Fretted Instruments School of guitar and banjo - good links page for bluegrassers and others http://www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com/
Mountain Folk site - "the show for people who enjoy bluegrass, folk, outdoor and mountain music" http://www.mountainfolk.com/
Announcements of "bluegrass events and festivals from around the world" http://www.demarhill.com/bluegrass/
Bluegrass T shirts and bumper/case stickers http://www.harmonias.com/
Don Depoy's dissertation: The Cultural Context of Bluegrass Music http://www.dondepoy.com/html/dissertation_introduction.html
And Don's Home Page at http://www.dondepoy.com/
Links to some interesting bluegrass web pages at http://www.techpublishing.com/
Ryman Tribute to Bill Monroe - lots of artists, lots of pics http://www.techpublishing.com/monroe/index.html
Page about "Man of Constant Sorrow", with some useful links to the Stanley Brothers, Mike Seeger and others http://members.nbci.com/elstongunn/sorrow.html
Some nice articles about traditional music (and pics) as well as the Rounder Record catalog at http://www.rounder.com/
Cybergrass - big bluegrass site at http://www.cybergrass.com/ with audio files, also a helpful page on converting LPs to CD format at http://www.cybergrass.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4
Acoustic Box Office - lots of bluegrass audio and video (you have to register) http://www.acousticboxoffice.com/srvs/default.asp
BGRASS-L archives (bluegrass discussion list) http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/bgrass-l.html
February issue of UK North West Bluegrass News now on line - lots of mando interest including continuation of interviews with Ricky Skaggs and Frank Wakefield http://www.nwbn.freeserve.co.uk/nl-01-02/index.htm
Charlie Ogunremi's bluegrass website - he is developing a mandolin page soon http://www.blueapples.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
Bluegrass Stuff merchandise http://www.bluegrassstuff.com/
16 Tracks bluegrass music store http://www.16tracks.com/
Unavoidable Bluegrass - site which includes some interesting videos http://www.bluegrasspro.com/oldweb/high.htm
Muckler Design Studio now at http://www.mds.homestead.com/
Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America http://www.spbgma.com/
The Virtual Bluegrass Festival! http://www.best.com/~kquick/vbf.html
And Karen Quick's Bluegrass Page http://www.best.com/~kquick/bg.html
650 WSM live on the internet with 24-hour programming http://www.wsmonline.com/
Phil Morley's new site, lots of interesting info, pics and links to the British bluegrass scene http://www.banjogazette8.freeserve.co.uk/home.htm
Pinecastle Records has some good bluegrass (and other) RealAudio files http://www.pinecastle.com/
Hear The White House Blues brought up to date by New Grange (bluegrass style) http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/001213.electionsongs.html
Lots of bluegrass interest on WAMU and you can listen live on line. Check out their bluegrass bulletin board http://www.wamu.org/bulletin.html
Frank Wakefield and Ricky Skaggs interviews at UK North West Bluegrass News http://www.nwbn.freeserve.co.uk/nl-00-12/nl-00-12.htm
General bluegrass site with excellent lyrics songbook pages http://www.bluegrassnet.com/
The Buzz Busby story - now at http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/2000/cover1208.html
Bluegrass (and lots of other) MP3 files at http://www.efolkmusic.com/mp3_bluegrass.asp
Sierra Records http://www.sierra-records.com/ Click on Catalog for some recordings of great interest to bluegrass and country music fans
The Bluegrass Story Book - pickers and enthusiasts write about how they got involved in the music. You are encouraged to contribute your own story http://bluegrassstorybook.freeservers.com/
The story of Ten Broeck (a.k.a. Tenbrooks, who beat Molly in Bill Monroe's famous song) http://hall.racingmuseum.org/horse.asp?ID=150
Some great pics of bluegrass performances, including the Del McCoury Band and David Grisman, courtesy of Barbara Liebler http://coloradocase.com/events.html
The former shows of Bluegrass TV are stored at the French site http://www.canalweb.net/cwsite/cw/default.asp?une=bluegrasstv Click on Musiques, then Country.
Prairie Home Companion site, includes bluegrass awards and Garrison Keillor! http://www.prairiehome.org/
Down Yonder (page for their Internet bluegrass radio station) http://folksites.com/DownYonder/
Interesting page by a bluegrass player and instrument maker http://www.larp.com/~bakimsey/music.html
WryGrass - Bluegrass With A Twist (and some good links) http://www.wrygrass.com/
List of former Bluegrass Boys (with Bill Monroe) http://www.beanblossom.com/History/BlueGrassBoys/BlueGrassBoys.html
Bluegrass in Australia http://www.bluegrass.org.au/
Lots of pix of individual musicians and bands http://www.nashphil.com/photo/. Also check out the home page http://www.nashphil.com/. A great bluegrass music resource!
Looks as though there could be some good bluegrass sound files at http://www.acousticboxoffice.com/srvs/default.asp
New book on Bill Monroe http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/ewing.html
Bluegrass radio on line http://www.bluegrassradio.com/
Bluegrass music channels at http://www.netradio.com/
Bluegrass music programs also on http://www.wdvx.com/. They have a Tuesday night bluegrass show from 7:00 to 9:00 (Eastern time)
Radio site with a bluegrass channel and no commercials http://www.spinner.com/
More bluegrass and old time music can be found at http://www.wamu.org/ and http://www.kgnu.org/
Down Yonder ~ The only bluegrass music show that is unique to KDHX, 88.1 FM, St. Louis community radio http://folksites.com/DownYonder/
Radio site including "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century", one of which is Bill Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html
International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) http://www.ibma.org/
Bluegrass/Acoustic music portal - lots of links!
http://music.searchking.com/
Listen to bluegrass music through your computer http://www.solidgoldbluegrass.com/
A great live concert from Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys from 9 August, 1969 http://www.solidgoldbluegrass.com/premium/sgbLibrary.cfm
iBluegrass, one of the best bluegrass sites, http://www.ibluegrass.com
Loads of links on the UK North West Bluegrass News links page http://www.nwbn.freeserve.co.uk/links.htm
To find out about the national scene in UK, go to British Bluegrass News at http://www.bbma.freeserve.co.uk
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