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Bluegrass Jam

2nd Sunday of each month
1:00pm - 5:00 pm
All Levels Welcome:

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The Bluegrass Jam is geared to the more experienced players centered on traditional bluegrass songs and instrumentation.

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What is the traditional bluegrass instrumentation,you might ask?

To answer that question the following is an except from an article published in a 1997 news letter from the SouthEastern Bluegrass Association and fairly well holds true for all bluegrass sessions.
"The basic bluegrass instruments are guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo, fiddle and bass. All of the instruments are acoustic. Other instruments that sometimes show in jam sessions are:
  • Dobro, which is widely accepted and may be considered almost a standard bluegrass instrument.
  • Harmonica, which is sometimes loved, sometimes tolerated and sometimes hated.
  • Autoharp, which may be too quiet to be effective in a full fledged jam session.
  • Mountain dulcimer, which is often accepted but could have the same volume problem as the autoharp.
  • Hammered dulcimer, which often plays "specialty tunes."
  • Accordian, which is sometimes included but often scorned (even though it was a part of one of the early versions of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys).
  • By and large, electric instruments and drums are out."
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All levels of players are welcome.

Listeners are always welcome.

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