Bluegrass and old time music is a branch of British folk music which evolved in South Appalachia following an 18th Century wave of emigration to the USA from northern England, the English/Scottish borderlands and Ulster. Over 275,000 emigrants (the vast majority of which were Presbyterian) from these areas of the British Isles arrived in the USA between 1718 and 1775. They were pushed by existing Puritan/Quaker/Anglican/Cavalier settlements into the South Appalachian back country or frontier land. The peoples of the South Appalachia region brought with them their own clan and family cultures and remained insular and unwelcoming to outsiders for almost two centuries. In this environment their music evolved from the traditional folk music of the British Isles into what first became categorised as mountain music and then hillbilly music in the 1920’s, one of the most popular music genres in the USA at that time. Hillbilly music (with its innate reference to King William of Orange) morphed into further categorisations such as old-time, western swing and, in the late 1940’s, bluegrass. Historians and musicologists have been able to trace the roots of this music back to the British Isles in terms of individual songs, fiddle tunes, musical structure and even individual stanzas. It is the aim of the company to mine this rich seam of British folklore and musical tradition and re-introduce it to the British Isles afresh. As we do so we intend to influence its forward progression by giving it a distinct feel of the modern evolution of contemporary acoustic music in the British Isles.