bluegrass

noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

famous, favorite, historic, interested, last, local, still, traditional

VERB + BLUEGRASS

jazz

BLUEGRASS + NOUN

festival, music, musician, summer, trio

PREP.

ADV.

regionally

Definitions

noun

Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).

noun

A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard

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Who's your favorite bluegrass musician?

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Tom plays the banjo with one of the local bluegrass bands.

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Tom met many other banjo players at the bluegrass festival.

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Bluegrass has a historic beginning from folk music.

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I met Tom at a bluegrass festival last summer.

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The farmer's market was a hive of activity thanks to a special performance by a regionally famous bluegrass trio.

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