Bluegrass Jamboree
Bluegrass—one of America's original art forms.

You're in for a foot-stompin' good time on the Delta Queen® when you book this Bluegrass Jamboree Vacation. Feel the heartbeat of the Appalachian and Smoky Mountain regions and watch the bows and fingers fly as musicians make fiddles, mandolins and banjos sing!

Thanks to Bill Monroe and his “Blue Grass Boys,” this hard-driving, high-energy style of music took the Grand Ole Opry by storm in 1939, and Monroe's band soon became one of the most popular touring Nashville groups. Flatt & Scruggs added fuel to bluegrass popularity by performing on national television from 1948 to 1969. Their “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” became an instrumental anthem in the field and was used in the soundtrack for the film Bonnie & Clyde. Bluegrass also provided background music for The Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance, and was the centerpiece of the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Since the movie's debut in 2001, bluegrass has enjoyed a popular resurgence.

We invite you to step on board and discover the music now performed around the world; the International Bluegrass Music Association lists members in all 50 states and 30 countries.

If you love bluegrass, this is the vacation for you.

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