[News Script: Bluegrass] Page: 1 of 4
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BLUEGRASS VTR TIME:
SOT SOT SOT SOT
When you say "country music& in Area Five, most"blue
people immediately think of Nograss," that
traditional southern mountain style of music that
includes traces of the 17th century English ballad,
plus a particular rolling rhythm all its own. It is
true folk-music, most of it unwritten, handed downfrom player to player by ear.
Well, bluegrass is
enhoying a
re-birth of popularity,
and both the music
and the listeners are the better for it. -ecently,
Bill Grant, of Grant's Annual Bluegrass
Festival in Hugo Oklahoma was at the station to
promote the festival--which will be held Aug. loth
through 13th. With him he brought some Are* Five
musicians...there was Charles Stewart on the banjo..
Charles is a police officer in Bedford-.Charles' wife
Greta on the guitar; James Fondville, a diamond
Yvonne Scott, a
broker from Hurst on the guitar;
Hurst housewife on the bass fiddle, and Bill Grantf;L0" a
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Bluegrass], script, May 16, 1972, 12:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1511704/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.