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Bluegrass music seeped in history and the foundation of traditional, American music. American music in general started in the colonial days when the African board-instrument players met the European fiddlers. “Through those two instruments, it derived into everything that we have today. I feel like the historical significance of those two instruments, building the tradition of American music, needs to be taught and maintained in the world of music,” says multi-award winning banjo picker . “Bluegrass, as a genre, was born in the 1940s when Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs got together. That’s what created the sound that we base …