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Bluegrass Parkway A Few More Years Make Music Manjimup 07.10.12.

Bluegrass Parkway celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2012 and are the longest continuously performing bluegrass band in Australia. This landmark in Australian bluegrass history has seen the band play at most major and minor folk and country festivals throughout Australia and New Zealand and they have successfully toured bluegrass festivals in the United States on a number of occassions.

What sets the band apart from others is the priority they have placed on presenting Bluegrass music in its most authentic form. Since early 1994 Bluegrass Parkway have performed around a single microphone, as was the norm for the pioneers of the genre in the 1940s. This came about after the band produced a presentation for the Toodyay Folk Festival in which they showed how Bluegrass legends such as Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys and the Stanley Brothers played Bluegrass music in the early days. The response from audiences was so positive that the band made the decision to keep doing it that way; besides, it was so much fun! Not only does the audience get a taste of Bluegrass music 40s and 50's style, it is also able to enjoy strong three and four part harmonies as well as witnessing some pretty fancy footwork. Since "retro" pioneering the single microphone, many bluegrass bands have joined Bluegrass Parkway and the single microphone revival!

For more information go to:- http://www.bluegrassparkway.com