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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.
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Articles about bluegrass history, instruments, and how to jam.
The big list of bluegrass guitar players: flatpickers, champions, and legends
A big organized list of notable bluegrass guitarists. The founders, the flatpicking pioneers, IBMA winners, Winfield champions, and the players shaping the sound today.
Adam Wright
Adam Wright of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, won the 2001 National Flatpicking Championship at Winfield and placed third there in 2012 and 2017. He also won the Wayne Henderson guitar contest in 2000.
Allen Shadd
Allen Shadd is a three-time National Flatpicking Champion at Winfield (1997, 2013, and 2019) and a contest player who has placed in the top three there nine times.
Andrew Hatfield
Andrew Hatfield of Peoria, Illinois, won the National Flatpicking Championship at Winfield in 2011 and 2017 and the National Mandolin Championship in 2013.
Ben Cockman
Ben Cockman of Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, won the 2014 National Flatpicking Championship at Winfield and plays guitar and mandolin in the Cockman Family band.
Beppe Gambetta
Beppe Gambetta (born 1955) is an Italian flatpicker from Genoa who founded the band Red Wine in 1977 and has recorded with David Grisman, Tony Trischka, and Dan Crary.