The second choice, The Bluegrass Blog is not quite so apparent. But I link to it as a general all purpose "what's happening in Bluegrass Music." This is important to me because one of the activities I have undertaken at my school is the creation of student bluegrass bands. I am the faculty co-sponsor with Kim Mattis our Media Center Director of the WPHS Bluegrass Club and bands.
I started this club and these bands to make our students aware of our Appalachian music culture, and because I see Bluegrass as an incredibly honest music, that has very strong thematic underpinnings in the very areas of Amerian culture which current pop culture ridicules: family, faith and community. It is these very areas where bluegrass music provides a teachable moment in just about every song. The idea of games teaching bluegrass music, or involving the themes of bluegrass music is something which intrigues me, and which I hope to further develop as I delve deeper into the particulars of game design.
