Welcome to the Bluegrass Music Association of Maine Web Site
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information and much more...Please visit our web site frequently as we are updating various information
as it becomes available.
BLUEGRASS is a term that has been applied to a wide variety of music. While exact definition may vary
among people who consider themselves BLUEGRASS fans or musicians there would be little disagreement
over this broad one: BLUEGRASS is string band music based on fiddle, 5-string banjo, guitar, mandolin,
dobro, and bass which is played and sung in styles similar to those used by Bill Monroe and his Blue
Grass Boys - whom we shall recognize as the "Father of BLUEGRASS MUSIC."
BLUEGRASS is recognized as a unique musical form, a music in which singers accompany themselves with
ACOUSTIC rather than electric instruments, bringing together amateur and professional musicians as well
as devoted fans who believe in and support this great music called BLUEGRASS.
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