The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48905   Message #738973
Posted By: Les from Hull
28-Jun-02 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Help: Rel. of Bluegrass, Celtic, OldTimey, etc
Subject: RE: Help: Rel. of Bluegrass, Celtic, OldTimey, etc
As an aside - I went to my first bluegrass session in the UK a couple of years ago. I've always enjoyed the music, but I would hardly say that I'm knowledgeable. Any road up, I joined in with what I had to hand (a D/G melodeon) and I was quite surprised to be offered a break. I rapidly invented a bluegrass melodeon style. So at least we can say that bluegrass is still evolving!

There was a old-timey stepper there as well who wanted to dance a few steps and the bluegrass players didn't know what to do. We soon found a few old-timey tunes that they knew, and asked the dancer to set a pace that we could all join in with. All in all, an interesting night.