The Highland Blend: Bluegrass’s Scottish Heritage

It should come as no surprise that traditional Scottish music and bluegrass are so closely connected. The Appalachians and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range; millions of years ago they were once connected as the Central Pangean Mountain.

No wonder the Scottish immigrants felt comfortable settling into the Virginias, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The mountains they moved into were literally the mountains they had just fled.