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  • These bands created and defined a new style called Newgrass, mixing traditional Bill Monroe-styled Bluegrass with a fusion of rock, blues and jazz.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • These bands created and defined a new style called Newgrass, mixing traditional Bill Monroe-styled Bluegrass with a fusion of rock, blues and jazz.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • Fleck's brand of space-age "Newgrass" found a small but devoted following.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Fleck's brand of space-age "Newgrass" found a small but devoted following.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Sam Bush, meanwhile, is a veteran bluegrass performer credited with originating "Newgrass" and has won just about every award there is short of Golden Pick (that's a pun, you see …).

    WFMU's recent playlists 2009

  • Fleck's brand of space-age "Newgrass" found a small but devoted following.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Fleck's brand of space-age "Newgrass" found a small but devoted following.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Fleck's brand of space-age "Newgrass" found a small but devoted following.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Ms. Raines grew up amid the adventurous sounds of Newgrass; she can be seen responding to that music as a child in the film "Bluegrass Country Soul," shot at a legendary 1971 North Carolina festival in which young Sam Bush and Larry Rice first introduced many to those sounds.

    The Sisterhood of Bluegrass 2009

  • He was also seminal to the Newgrass movement, and a band I was in in college -- The Corn Palace Conquistadors -- covered almost every song from his album Aereo-Plain.

    John Hartford David Wharton 2007

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