| Show Students Enjoy Stomping Foot-Stomping Grass Blue Music 2 by Peggy Ho kins h Hopkins The Oquirrh Ridge Drifters played some som stomping foot-stomping grass blue-grass music for Western Week Ron plays th the guitar Tom Toni mandolin Rex Flinner ba banjo jo and Kennard Machol plays the bass and fiddle They all sing traditional grass blue s music The band got together in 1979 and according to likes to stick to traditional grass blue-grass music and introduce their music to people who are not really familiar with or dont don't quite know what grass blue-grass means He said Its a completely different type of music as long as youre you're talking about the traditional Bill Monroe type hard hard driving driving music We sing ing the songs in higher keys playing songs fast kind of like cou country try music in overdrive There arent aren't many bands around like them and as a result said they have been ac accepted on the Utah Performing Arts Tour which takes them around communities allover all allover allover over Utah I think its it's because of our traditional way of thinking as to what we play that's one one reason weve we've been accepted as carrying on a areal areal areal real type of American America music When we play people like it iL |
