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Greg Daigle

Greg Daigle

Gregg Daigle is a Wisconsin-based bluegrass multi-instrumentalist, educator, and founder of the Gregg Daigle School of Bluegrass with 25+ years of teaching experience, and a member of the progressive bluegrass band Gold Standard.

Jun 17, 2026

14:22
Well, on the gold standard website, it says that you're a quote, progressive bluegrass band, unquote, describe what that means.
14:31
Yeah, it definitely sounds like a vague blanket term so they know where to put us in the record bin in the record store.
14:40
But I think one of the things that when you hear the word bluegrass, especially now because we're generations removed from that first generation, where bluegrass was really shaped.
14:52
But you think about the elements of bluegrass and a big part of it is it's string band music, right? There's no percussion.
14:59
So all the rhythms and everything has to come from the attack and the rests that the band makes to make the grooves work and everything.
15:10
You think vocal stacks, vocal harmonies, you think a lot of that kind of that two step, the two beat cycles and stuff.
15:18
And we definitely bring all those sensibilities in, you know, we do some, some standards covers and whatnot, but progressive just really is such a vague term, but to, to, You know, like I said, we've got to associate with something and bluegrass is something we all really love a lot.
16:00
You kind of addressed it earlier, but kind of go a little more in depth than that.

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