Bluegrass Ambassadors Melanie Elliott and as Assur

and as Assur

For over four hundred years

and the history of American social movements

men and women into the church

many are appalled by its crass consumerism

Bluegrass Ambassadors Melanie Elliott and as AssurBluegrass Ambassadors is the first book length study of the McLain Family Band, which has spread the gospel of bluegrass for more than fifty years. Rooted in bluegrass but also collaborating with classical composers and performing folk, jazz, gospel, and even marches, the band traveled to sixty two foreign countries in the 1970s under the auspices of the State Department. The band's verve and joyful approach to its art perfectly suited its