The history of Blue Grass Music can trace it’s roots back to countries such as Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, brought to America by immigrants and perfected as an art form in the mid-1800′s. In rural Appalachia and in southern areas of The United States, Blue Grass Music first took shape by combining dozens of singular musical components together with basic instruments to create a new and exciting genre. Blue Grass Music instantly became representative of the lifestyle of the people that created and performed it - often played on instruments such as fiddles, guitars, banjos and dobros that were homemade.
For nearly the first hundred years of it’s existence Blue Grass Music was only popular near the region of it’s origin, rarely performed in distant locations. In the 1940′s and 1950′s Blue Grass artists such as Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers and Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs popularized the Blue Grass style with new audiences globally, cementing Blue Grass Music as a lasting and soulful art form.
Today, many of the more mainstream country musicians such as Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs and others have incorporated Blue Grass Music into popular culture, making Blue Grass Music commercially successful and widely accepted.
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