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Bluegrass.
A growing collection of bluegrass standards, old-time tunes, and fiddle favorites. Every song has its key, chord progression, and history. Public domain songs also have lyrics and free sheet music. All written by a picker for pickers.
All 54 songs.
Learn the tradition.
Articles about bluegrass history, instruments, and how to jam.
How to find a bluegrass jam near you
Where bluegrass jams get posted, how to tell a slow jam from an open jam, what to ask the host, and what to do in the circle on your first night.
The big list of bluegrass banjo players: Scruggs pickers, champions, and legends
A big organized list of notable bluegrass banjo players. The founders, the melodic pioneers, IBMA winners, Winfield champions, and the players shaping the sound today.
Alan Munde
Alan Munde (born 1946) played banjo for Jimmy Martin, then led Country Gazette for 30 years and taught at South Plains College. IBMA Hall of Fame, 2024.
Alison Brown
Alison Brown (born 1962) was the first woman to win an IBMA instrumental award, Banjo Player of the Year in 1991. She won a Grammy in 2001 and co-founded Compass Records.
Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell of Zama, Mississippi, won the 2023 National Bluegrass Banjo Championship at Winfield and has played banjo with Edgar Loudermilk and Seth Mulder and Midnight Run.
Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck (born 1958) played banjo in New Grass Revival, then took the instrument into jazz, classical, and African music. He has won 18 Grammys and two IBMA banjo awards.