Statement of Purpose
This organization is being formed out of the love and respect for BLUEGRASS music.
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.
We will remember that BLUEGRASS music was stylized and expanded by other great pioneers such as: The Stanley
Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Jim & Jesse, Reno & Smiley, Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Jimmy Martin, Country
Gentlemen, Lilley Brothers & Don Stover - to name just a few.
We realize that BLUEGRASS music developed from Folk, Mountain and Old-Time Southern String Band Music of the 1920's
and 1930's. Early entertainers such as the Monroe Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, Delmore Brothers, J.E. & Wade Mainer,
Clayton McMichen and many, many others, helped to lay the foundation and create the atmosphere that allowed
BLUEGRASS music to be born.
We intend to preserve, promote and maintain the integrity and roots of this great Acoustic string band music
called BLUEGRASS here in the State of Maine.
This association will be a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association of Owensboro, Kentucky.
Please visit our web site fequently as we are updating various information as it becomes available.
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