Panorama Out in the cold world and far away from home: Bluegrass music in the Czech Republic

10-01-2008 17:19 | Rosie Johnston

Bluegrass originates from the Appalachian region of the United States of America, and is a type of music as American as apple pie. But bluegrass enjoys a long and rich history in the Czech Republic too. Lee Bidgood is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Virginia - the cradle of bluegrass. For the past five years, he’s been looking at the way this music is performed in the Czech Republic:

Lee Bidgood (in the middle) Lee Bidgood (in the middle)   Back

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