BLUEGRASS IN TUNE FOR THE HOLIDAYS.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: KEITH LAWRENCE Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer

Looking for a change of pace in your Christmas music this year?

Try bluegrass.

That's the message of the International Bluegrass Music Association, which lists nearly three-dozen bluegrass Christmas albums available this year.

Three of them are new: The Nashville Mandolin Ensemble's ``Gifts'' and two compilation albums with a variety of artists -- ``A Scottish Christmas'' and ``Tinsel Tunes: More Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill.''

Butch Baldassari's ``Evergreen: Mandolin Music For Christmas'' has received extensive airplay as background music on The Weather Channel in recent …