Americana is a loose subset of American folk music, that is perhaps best defined as "classic American music"—ranging in style from roots-based bluegrass to alternative country, gospel, blues, zydeco, and other native forms.

One of the main reasons Americana is used to describe such a wide variety of musical genres is because of the diverse range of cultural influences which we call American. For example, traditional Bluegrass instrumentation consists of the banjo which originated on the African continent, guitars from Europe, and fiddling styles which have their roots in traditional Irish and other Gaelic fiddling techniques.



Bands at Jagz that play Americana;

Alan West & Steve Black
Brianie
Darden Smith
Mosquito
Nashville Songwriters
Peter Rowan
State of Undress
Steve Gifford
The Big River Bandits
The Deputies
The Haley Sisters
The Man in Black
TOKYO ROSENTHAL