Every Saturday morning we set up our store for an open Bluegrass Jam Session. We open our back door for our Bluegrass players. Folks come from all around, and the only thing guaranteed is that we’ll always have a great time!

So come see, come dance, come play… and enjoy our Pickin & Grinnin’ every Saturday from 8am-noon!

Bluegrass is typically performed on acoustic instruments, since the genre originated before widespread availability of household electricity. Electric instruments are frowned upon by conservative country music people and here at Dixie’s our rule is “if it plugs in the wall – leave it at home”.

The various types of music brought with the people who began migrating to America in the early 1600s are considered to be the roots of bluegrass music---including dance music and ballads from  Ireland, Scotland and England, as well as African American gospel music and blues. (In fact, slaves from Africa brought the design idea for the banjo--an instrument now integral to the bluegrass sound.)

As the early Jamestown settlers began to spread out into the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky and the Virginias, they composed new songs about day-to-day life experiences in the new land. Since most of these people lived in rural areas, the songs reflected life on the farm or in the hills and this type of music was called "mountain music" or "country music." The invention of the phonograph and the onset of the radio in the early 1900s brought this old-time music out of the rural Southern mountains to people all over the United States. Unlike mainstream country music, bluegrass relies mostly on acoustic stringed instruments.

Bluegrass was generally used for dancing in the rural areas, a dancing style known as buckdancing, flatfooting, or clogging, but eventually spread to more urban areas and became more popular.