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Our latest bluegrass bunkum
"We had a few nights of gallivanting around Nashville, time enough to find some real country music and bluegrass. Both are here. You just need to know where to look (and to avoid Lower Broadway). We found and enjoyed happy helpings of both courtesy of Opryland's Nashville Palace, a mere drunken stagger from our room in the Fiddler’s Inn and Nashville’s self-titled ‘Home of Traditional Country Music’, and the simple but intimate setting of The Station Inn, famously ‘Forever Bluegrass’ since 1974. In between we paid a visit to the studios of Sirius XM's Bluegrass Junction and 650AM WSM, not to mention a visit to both Oprys, the old (the venerated Ryman Auditorium) and the new (Opryland's Grand Ole Opry House)." >>> MORE
- Bill Monroe
OUR TOURS
Upcoming tours, 2021 and beyond (click on the graphic for more details)
Previous tours
- David Pendley, mandolinist with The Kristy Cox Band
BLUEGRASS HISTORY / GIGS & FESTIVALS / TRAILS
Musings from the bluegrass past (History), the bluegrass crowd (Gigs/Festivals) and the bluegrass trail (#bluegrasstrails)
- Bluegrass History
- Bluegrass Gigs/Festival
- Bluegrass Trails
Bill Monroe | Rosine, KY | Bluegrass Trails
"Pictures in the Old Homeplace testify to the brilliant 2001 restoration job performed to get the structure from almost ruin to its present form, a faithful representation of its 1917/1918 appearance both inside and out – the work was carried out by the Leatherwood Construction Company of Tennessee. Presented today as a museum to the life and times of Bill Monroe, the five-room wooden structure is filled with early 20th century-vintage furnishings, cherished family heirlooms, and mementos from Monroe’s illustrious 70-year musical career; awards, honours, and, of course, information on the history of the musical genre born within these walls. We know these walls can sing and dance, but if only these walls could talk."
Seth Mulder & Midnight Run | Ireland 2020
"Seth Mulder & Midnight Run is high-energy, traditional bluegrass with a ‘fresh approach to the ‘High Lonesome sound’. One of the most entertaining bluegrass acts on the scene today, we are huge fans of these guys, and if you had but a single bluegrass-lovin’ bone in your whole body then you’d understand why. We hadn’t planned on seeing three shows of their exhaustive early 2020 Ireland & UK tour, but we did. We kept going back for more."
Bill Monroe | Rosine, KY | Bluegrass Trails
"Pictures in the Old Homeplace testify to the brilliant 2001 restoration job performed to get the structure from almost ruin to its present form, a faithful representation of its 1917/1918 appearance both inside and out – the work was carried out by the Leatherwood Construction Company of Tennessee. Presented today as a museum to the life and times of Bill Monroe, the five-room wooden structure is filled with early 20th century-vintage furnishings, cherished family heirlooms, and mementos from Monroe’s illustrious 70-year musical career; awards, honours, and, of course, information on the history of the musical genre born within these walls. We know these walls can sing and dance, but if only these walls could talk."
- Steve Martin
POSTS | RECENT & FEATURED
A selection of the most recent and featured posts
- Bill Monroe
THE MYGRASSISBLUE.COM GALLERY
Featured Image - October 2020 | Flatt Lonesome, 'A Lester Flatt Celebration' 2017, Sparta, TN. (click on image to enter the mygrassisblue.com Gallery)
- Ricky Skaggs
