Bluegrass in Japan | Kentucky Life | KET

Bluegrass music has traveled far from its homeland in Appalachia and its founder, Kentuckian Bill Monroe. It has found footholds of enthusiastic fans around the globe, including in Japan. While the roots of bluegrass music in Japan can be found in the 1960s and 70s, there are younger musicians, like Takumi Kodera, who are finding their niche in bluegrass.
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[@redfoxblacksocks]

Can we also appreciate that the song at the end is Take Five? A jazz standard, played in bluegrass style by Japanese musicians- what a time to be alive!

[@patrickbush9526]

In 1978 I was stationed in Japan a formed a group local Japanese musicians I was like a rockstar I never had so much fun in my life what a wonderful experience

[@smokeymcpot69]

Hope you got laid a lot lol

[@rudylittlewolf]

This is just simply epic and amazing. I salute the Japanese culture for taking in such a great style of music. In music and melodies, there are no borders.

[@tonysmith5072]

Right! I play bluegrass and my friends live in Japan, I hope I can find somebody to jam with when I visit them haha.

[@HorsesArePeople2]

Japanese love American culture. I have a friend from Japan who dresses exclusively like an early 1920s gangster 😂

[@jollygrapefruit786]

There's nothing more flattering to me then seeing my culture loved and express my foreign people!

[@codyschuppert4984]

I’m a country boy from Kentucky and I love me some bluegrass

[@smokeymcpot69]

I'm a city slicker from NJ and I love me some bluegrass too man

[@StoutShako]

How come no one is talking about the excellent bluegrass rendition of Take 5 at 6:10???? My jaw DROPPED when I heard that. Amazing musicians!

[@hardcoreholman303]

Just look at all the damn smiles and tell me this ain't music for the soul

[@Conn30Mtenor]

There are expert practitioners of every western musical art form in Japan. Ska, Rock n Roll, classical, jazz, bluegrass etc etc etc. They are an intense people who go the distance. When they find something from outside the country that they love, they go all in.

[@jameseast7966]

1969 in Hiroshima, I went to a concert, the theme was mostly pop and county. Back to Iwakuni in 75, many tv talent shows had a lot of rock and country performers. Don Williams was the most popular star at that time.

[@stephaneg9591]

I was an university student in Kyoto in the 1970s. At that time, every university had a bluegrass club that held regular concerts and performed at live music venues. I was one of them and played the banjo (Fender Artist). In the summer, there was an outdoor concert called the Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival, and we performed on a stage in a grove of trees, a similar environment to the United States. The bluegrass craze in Japan died down in the late 1980s, and now Rocky Top in Ginza is probably the only permanent live music venue. However, the old fans continue to exist quietly, and young players are produced, albeit in small numbers.

[@otisarmyalso]

Having fun

[@mpospisil101]

Nice presentation. I think Japanese bluegras music is the second best in the world. During the last 5 years I have seen and listened many videos and read a lot comments about Japanese bluegrass.

[@spanky814]

I went on a study abroad in 2010. I will never forgot listening to the Dillards with my professor while we were riding the train. Haha! How could anybody that lives in the mountains not understand that high lonesome sound.

[@centerice]

はい Tsuyoshi, 音楽の中では違いはありません。

[@chrisfloyd9224]

Music has no nationality, great quote

[@Quinntus79]

Art is art. It has no boundaries or borders.

[@1rwjwith]

Absolutely marvelous. My favorite music right now is coming out of Japan.

[@BuggyD_Clown927]

I'm from Southwest Virginia. The Carterfold is probably a 5 minute drive from my house. My grandmother said they'd go watch AP and Maybelle Carter all the time. The place is practically ran down now. Such a great piece of history.

[@crazando]

Confederate flag in Japan, beautiful

[@bradsparks6008]

Rip sab watanabe such an amazing guy!

[@maximusaugustus6823]

beautiful and emotional

[@Ironknuckle100]

I heard the name Ralph Stanley. This by name alone is going to be a good video.

[@BuggyD_Clown927]

Love me some Clinch Mountain Boys.

[@tonysmith5072]

Kentokyo, it’s a movement!

[@2012escapee1]

Bluegrass makes people feel happy 😊

[@menachemsachemrobotscowitz2794]

Thank you for presenting this.

[@Pack_leader1989]

That's awesome 🇺🇲🇯🇵

[@kwekwlos]

Awesome

[@muttandjeff5213]

Wonderful stuff!

[@otisarmyalso]

Super

[@spliffobama]

My family is from very nearby Rosine. Great-grandmother told us how Bill Monroe would come over to play music with her family.

[@Lurker1979]

Neat

[@gmanette188]

Thank you

[@iamT3NKO]

Hello from Kentucky too but I hope nobody is offended by this name but I live in a place called whitesburg

[@kazumitakeda5717]

🎌🗾日本国民必見🌸😉👍〜🌟

[@thebanana401]

how did you find this?

[@captainsaitama5074]

Japan?! County music?! NANIIII?!!!!!!!! 😍

[@BobWarnerBarn]

Nice!................................................

[@terrywaynebroadway7661]

🤠👍

[@centerice]

In the early days, bands were limited to members from different counties. Then cars came along and made bands possible with members from different states. One day in the not too far off Elon Musk/Virgin Galactic daily "low-space commuting" future, bands will be possible featuring members from different countries. How cool will that be...

[@WvhKerkhof]

Yeah whole Japan will play bluegrass.

[@LukeParks123]

Ah, hillbilly play good music

[@oliverkalamata2753]

You're right, Sleepy Joe. Now, go back to sleep and let the country thrive without you! 😂

[@chrisguerra9631]

This is epic