Bluegrass Breadth ~ THE OCOEE PARKING LOT BLUEGRASS JAM

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BLUEGRASS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, FROM START TO FINISH - OCOEE, FLORIDA 11.18.2016.
You may have thought all bluegrass music sounded the same. No doubt, there are many beloved standard tunes, and you’ll hear a few here. But, on this Friday night, the pickers tried out some great songs I had never heard in the twenty years I have been attending this Jam in Ocoee. Some were less traditional but still reached back into the 60s.

Bluegrass covers a broad range of the traditional music spectrum. Wikipedia defines “bluegrass music” this way: Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a related genre of country music. Influenced by the music of Appalachia, Bluegrass has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music, and was also later influenced by the music of African-Americans through incorporation of jazz elements. You will hear a broad and interesting sample of traditional folk, roots, folk, bluegrass, and a little country in this video.

As you watch, keep in mind this is an OPEN JAM. It is not a rehearsed performance. Each picker, in turn, chooses a tune, and he or she sings or plays it accompanied by all the other pickers. Everyone gets a chance no matter the skill level. The Jam meets every Friday evening at 6:30 in the parking lot behind the Pizza Hut at 15840 West Colonial Dr., Ocoee, Florida 34761.

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