Bluegrass music is the old time country music, which has been influenced by Scottish-Irish, British, the blues, Negro spirituals and gospel music as well. It had its start on the rural south and came about in the 1940’s after World War two. It was “basically a fusion of “hillbilly”, ”folk” and various types of “country” that were popular with the farm families and blue collar workers” (Pendergrass pp. 4). In the beginning it was called by var

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