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- noun A
progressive subgenre ofbluegrass music, typically incorporatingelectric instruments, non-traditional chord progressions, and lengthyimprovisation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One modernizing element - which they share with decades of what's sometimes called "newgrass" - is a flexibility of rhythm.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2012
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This is one of the variations of traditional bluegrass that categorizes a band as progressive bluegrass, or "newgrass" -- sometimes even called "jamgrass," epitomized by the popular String Cheese Incident.
Meghan Neal: Infamous Stringdusters Delight Brooklyn Bowlers And Bluegrass Loyalists Alike 2010
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This isn't a mashup, and I'm not even sure if you have any patience for "newgrass," but Nickel Creek does a pretty entertaining cover of "Toxic."
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There have been some traditionalists dubious about the "newgrass" generation's extension of the bluegrass genre into jazz-like territory since the movement's rise 25 to 30 years ago, but for Mr. Douglas -- who by age 20, along with Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice, was studying the acoustic jazz of Django Reinhart and Stefan Grappelli -- that direction was practically inevitable.
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We play bluegrass, rockabilly, classic country, folk and what I guess would be called 'newgrass' or 'jamgrass.'
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"That branched us out nicely from folk-rock into 'newgrass' bluegrass," Allen said.
GoTriad Archives 2010
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Bluegrass, "newgrass" and more share the stage at a lively four-day festival that begins Thursday.
The Seattle Times 2010
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"That branched us out nicely from folk-rock into 'newgrass' bluegrass," Allen said.
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Bluegrass, "newgrass" and more share the stage at a lively four-day festival that begins Thursday.
The Seattle Times 2010
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We play bluegrass, rockabilly, classic country, folk and what I guess would be called 'newgrass' or 'jamgrass.'
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