The Forward Roll
Bluegrass Pride Wins Music Home Project Grant
Written by: Kara Kundert Today, we are thrilled to announce that Bluegrass Pride has won a grant from the Music Home Project. This grant will be used in three ways: Ensuring fair artist pay to all Bluegrass Pride performers in our 2020 season. Developing and circulating instructional guides to local leaders who want to bring Bluegrass Pride to their hometown. Creating a vetted nationwide directory of safe venues for Bluegrass Pride artists to perform. Our mission is to support bluegrass, old-time, and traditional American musicians of all backgrounds and levels. In support of that mission, our priorities for 2020 are...
PREMIERE: Tui — Smoke Behind the Clouds
This particular song includes all of our favorite things: the preservation and promotion of diverse histories in string band music, queered lyrics, and (of course), beautiful acoustic instrumentation from these talented young old-time musicians.
Our Shared Focal Point
I fell in love with bluegrass music the night before I decided to hide that I was gay.
80 Years of Bluegrass
We've talked a lot on here about the history of Pride and LGBT culture. But a lot of folks here know that part -- they came to Bluegrass Pride from the Pride side of the equation. So what about bluegrass? Where did this driving, lonesome music come from?
50 Years of Pride
It’s said that a stoned drag queen throwing punches or a cross-dressing dyke named Storme DeLarverie, who was hit with a nightstick, may have started it all. But pushback grew and a tactical patrol force was brought in. Over the course of five days, riots, protests, and fires ensued. These events would become known as the Stonewall Riots...