Bluegrass and country music This paragraph is problematic and ill founded These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world especially in the United States where they had a profound impact on American music particularly bluegrass and country music The people of Appalachia are not Celts or Gaels they re Anglo Saxons from the Scottish Lowlands as well as Ulster Scots and Northern English This doesn t belong on an article about Celtic music 2 126 221 170