Bluegrass

Who's your favorite bluegrass musician?

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

Tom met many other banjo players at the bluegrass festival.

Bluegrass has a historic beginning from folk music.

I met Tom at a bluegrass festival last summer.

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

Tom plays fiddle in a bluegrass band.

Tom is a bluegrass musician.

She alternates between solo and band recordings, which allows the singer/fiddler to showcase both contemporary pop and traditional country/bluegrass sounds.

The members of the band called El Street Cafe have been playing together for four years. The band's rousing mixture of blues and bluegrass usually attracts a big crowd. Passersby stop to listen to a song or two. Sometimes they may even sing along. Lester Schultz, the lead singer and harmonica player of El Street Cafe, says subway musicians are part of an important tradition of public music.