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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
Mountain Song Productions and Brevard Music Center, who produce the annual Blue Ridge Banjo Camp with Béla Fleck, and the Blue…
Casey Driessen has always been something of an enigma in the fiddle world. No one challenges this five stringer’s virtuosity, or…
The fiddle chop is not a new technique in the bluegrass world. Since Bill Monroe made the mandolin chop such a…
Fiddler extraordinaire, and Berklee grad, Casey Driessen, has accepted a teaching position at the Berklee College of Music’s European campus in…
Attention talented young string players… Applications for the 2014 Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival must be turned in…
Leftover Salmon has a new single, Thornpipe, a driving banjo tune written and performed by Andy Thorn. It’s the second in…
Here is another look at RockyGrass 2013 from Shannon Turner.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could register all your valuable musical instruments and gear online, with photos, descriptions, serial numbers,…
This report from RockyGrass is a contribution from Jake Schepps and Christian Sedelmyer. Working backwards on Day 2 of the festival:…
Casey Driessen, he of the wicked fiddle chop, is offering a series of instructional videos for download from his web site,…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
