Bluegrass refers to several species of grasses of the genus Poa (with the most famous being the Kentucky bluegrass)
The term has also been applied to various things that relate to the region in which the grass grows:
- Bluegrass region, a region of the United States centered in Kentucky
- Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music
- The Blue Grass Boys, the band led by Bill Monroe that defined the Bluegrass genre
- Bluegrass & Backroads, a television show about people and places in the Bluegrass region
- Other uses
- Blue Grass, Iowa, a small city
- Blue Grass, Virginia
- Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky
- Bluegrass (Sirius)
- Bluegrass (train), a passenger train of the Monon Railroad
Famous quotes containing the words kentucky, blue and/or grass:
“He believes without reservation that Kentucky is the garden spot of the world, and is ready to dispute with anyone who questions his claim. In his enthusiasm for his State he compares with the Methodist preacher whom Timothy Flint heard tell a congregation that “Heaven is a Kentucky of a place.””
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
—Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)
“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
—Günther Grass (b.1927)