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This is a list of bluegrass music festivals that have Wikipedia articles or are otherwise verified by an independent, reliable, published source. This list may have some overlap with the umbrella topic
File:Huck Finn Jubilee and Bluegrass Festival 2009.jpg, Huck Finn Jubilee and Bluegrass Festival 2009
File:MerleFest Crowd during Avett Brothers Performance by Jacob Caudill.jpg, MerleFest Crowd during Avett Brothers Performance
File:Tottenham Festival wide.jpg, Bluegrass fans in the concert area at the 2014 Tottenham Bluegrass Festival
File:Everettlillyandmountaineers.JPG, Vandalia Gathering
File:Mountairyfiddlersconvention.JPG, Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention
File:SplitLipRayfield.jpeg, Walnut Valley Festival
File:2007 TellurideBlueGrassFestivalStageView.jpg, 2007 Telluride BlueGrass Festival
File:Jetty Road concert.jpg, Tamworth Country Music Festival in Australia
This is a list of bluegrass music festivals that have Wikipedia articles or are otherwise verified by an independent, reliable, published source. This list may have some overlap with the umbrella topic list of folk festivals
A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods.
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, and more complete overlap with list of country music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of country music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on country music. This list may have some overlap with the larger topic list of folk festivals, and may also overlap with the related t ...
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Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ...
is a form of American roots music
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ''roots music''. Many traditional songs have been sung ...
, and a subgenre of country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of Appalachia
Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ca ...
. It has mixed roots in Irish
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***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
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, Scottish, Welsh
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* Welsh people
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, and English
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traditional music, and also later influenced by the music of African-Americans
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through incorporation of jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
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See also
*List of music festivals
A list of music festivals around the world. A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, ...
References
External links
* {{expand list, date=October 2014 * Bluegrass