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3Hotdogs

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10. Most popular place for bluegrass in the country is N.Y.C.

Reply to Totally Tunsie (Reply #9)

Thu Apr 23, 2020, 12:42 PM

Apr 2020

I don't recall how that rating came to be, but I recall attending B/G concerts in N.Y.C. featuring Bill Monroe, Seldom Scene, Doc W., Ralph Stanley.

Most were also free.

South Street Seaport had a free bluegrass concert every summer.

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