I've been posting Capercaillie videos but since I want to make them last all month tonight I'm offering you the video for Alison Krauss' Let Me Touch You For A While.
In addition to being an incredibly talented singer/fiddler that woman is so pretty that it just about hurts to look at her.
Bluegrass evolved directly from Celtic music. As the Scots and Irish immigrants came to the US they brought their traditional music and dance with them. However as they lost touch with the Old Country and began to evolve their own culture their music and dance began to take on its own character.
Irish step dancing became clogging and Scottish jigs and reels became square dancing. The fiddle and mandolin were kept, but the bagpipe, accordion and pennywhistle fell out of use and were replaced by the banjo and guitar.
However you only need to listen to traditional Bluegrass to hear the Celtic roots.
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