Folk Music Bands

Bands that play folk music in the U.S. are very diverse. They have different backgrounds and are inspired by various things. But they do have something in common: there music is a form of art that brings to present echoes of times long gone and they address to the same music loving American public.

For instance Southern Accent is a well known and loved bluegrass gospel group from Western north Carolina. Their music is mainly religious, they take traditional gospel songs and modern religious hymns and they add some bluegrass flavor. Their main goal is to spread the Gospel through their music and apparently they are doing it very successfully.

Dollar Brothers Band is another band that mixes gospel with bluegrass while Surefire bluegrass are the winners of the annual band competition called Hayes Grass Bluegrass.

Neighbors Bluegrass Band also have a lot of fans as well as Old Dogs New Tricks, who unfortunately are no longer a group.

Big Country Bluegrass is another well appreciated folk music band. They have a hard driving style of bluegrass which makes them the public's favorites, wherever they go. They have started around twenty years ago and their experience has helped them be able to offer some of the best quality bluegrass music there is. One can spot influences of Bill Monroe and Lester Flat in their music, which only adds flavor to their original and very personal style.

Amantha Mill, Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth, Buck Haggard Band and others are just a few of the band names worth mentioning. Creek Junction Band is a rather new band, formed in 2009. Still each of the band's members has years of experience. This band specializes in traditional bluegrass and their music style is very imaginative, original and catchy.

Bluegrass is a sub genre of American folk music and it is so popular because it is very eclectic: it mixes Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English folk music roots, blues and jazz and sometimes even more subtle types of influences can be spotted.