Well said CarlZen. I was afraid to say the same things for fear that someone would feel I was intentionally "flaming". Every bluegrass session I have ever attended has been less like a musical event than it is like the Spanish Inquisition, with accusations of heresy flying back and forth. Narrow-minded music nazis muttering about how "Mr. Monroe would have played it", and the never ending litany about how Earl Scruggs would have done it, without having the historical perspective to know that Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs were considered revolutionaries in there day.

At one local jam session there is a declared "Bluegrass-Free Zone", where Celtic,Sea Shanty,Jazz, Blues, Jugband, and everything else is played and sung. I'll bring my harmonicas,ukulele, bones, spoons and washboard where people meet to play and enjoy music, and leave the bluegrassers to fight among themselves about how one musical style may or may not be played.