The fact that Bluegrass remains a viable genre is because it is family oriented. It is passes down thru' generations within families not only within musically talented families but as a genre for pure listening pleasure. I remember as a kid my folks listened to big band swing and altho' I didn't appreciate it then, I do now that I'm ahem over 50. So if you want bluegrass to prevail, introduce your kids to it early in life. If they don't catch on to it then, maybe just maybe, they will when they have kids. I think there is no better band to bring 20 yr. olds into the realm of bluegrass than the band Vince Gill has taken under his wing to promote. That's the Nickel Creek band. Even tho' they are a bit over the top progressively they do promote the bluegrass genre. Record stores can't even catalogue them in a specific genre because bluegrass doesn't sell and they're to unhip to be labeled jazz. Grisman, Fleck and many others have had the same problem. Too bad the term bluegrass is so unsavory to the buying public. They're missing out on good family music and that's surely troubling in these troubled times. PS: I play texas swing on the banjo and not bluegrass for 2 reasons. One is, that I never learned how to play bluegrass ala Scruggs and early on in my career traditionalists scorned me. Secondly, Grassers don't make any money to speak of in the N.W.US unless they play in the progressive style. Texas swing ROCKS!!!