Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- KENTUCKY
- Kentucky is the spiritual home of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, the genre's founding father, was born in Rosine, Kentucky in 1911, and the state lends the music its very name.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SCRUGGS
- Earl Scruggs revolutionized the five-string banjo with his three-finger picking style, most famously showcased on 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown,' recorded in 1949.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DOBRO
- The resonator guitar known as a Dobro produces that weeping, sliding tone so central to bluegrass, its name comes from the Dopyera Brothers who developed it in the late 1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DULCIMER
- The Appalachian dulcimer, with its long, narrow body and drone strings, is one of the few stringed instruments developed entirely in the United States.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Bluegrass word search, free and large-print. Find the banjo, the fiddle, the lonesome harmony, and the porch where it all began.
About Bluegrass
Bluegrass music grew out of the Appalachian Mountains, woven from Scottish and Irish fiddle traditions, African American banjo technique, and the sacred shape-note singing that echoed through rural churches. Bill Monroe forged the sound in the 1940s with his Blue Grass Boys out of Kentucky, blending lightning-fast mandolin runs with close, aching harmonies that seemed to rise straight out of the hollers and creek bottoms. The music has always been communal, a front-porch art form where ears and fingers learn together, where a simple waltz can turn into something that makes the hair on your arms stand up.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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