Guidelines for playing bluegrass at crypto events
github.com
github.com
It should apply to any event, surely?
But the story I tell is of the evolution of the tradition we have come to denote with words like "Americana" and "Appalachian traditional" into a crypto-anarchist sentiment, from Carter Family -=> Bill Monroe -=> Jerry Garcia -=> John Perry Barlow -=> The WELL -=> EFF / archive.org / hashcash / bitcoin / ethereum.
My assertion is that it's no coincidence that the places on the internet where Grateful Dead tape sharing (which was a proto metadata aggregation) thrived have been the same places where cryptological innovation (ie, applying assymetric cyrpto to higher level metaphors than just signing and access control, including but not limited to blockchain tech). Bluegrass (and the various musical movements that have surrounded it) has deep in its DNA a drive to be open source and facilitate sharing and learning of a corpus.
I'm honing in on turning it into a talk series; here's an early example.