An Afternoon of Bluegrass Music

“ It’s blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound. ” — Earl Scruggs Bluegrass music is a very distinct music genre from country/western. My mom and dad both played guitar. Most of their friends played guitars, and several played fiddles, mandolins, and/or banjos. They didn’t have much, but they all had their instruments and cherished them. It wasn’t unusual for them to get together on Saturday nights after a long blue-collar workman’s week to play music and sing. As a little girl, I fell asleep many a Saturday night nestled beneath guests’ coats tossed on a bed, listening to the strumming, plucking, picking, and bowing of familiar old songs. Some were country/western… Hank Snow, Webb Pierce, Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, and Patsy Cline, but others were distinctly Bluegrass… Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, and Ricky Skaggs. So when I saw the ad for a Bluegrass Festival this past weekend in Henderson, I put it on the calendar.Originating in the 1940s in Appalachia, Bluegrass music…