Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
Focus in on artists who play bluegrass music from all over the world
The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
What’s happening at shows and festivals you might want to see
What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
Band news, weddings, births, and obituaries, plus our bluegrass crosswords.
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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.
Lifelong musician and educator Happy Traum died on July 17 in Manhattan, NY, following surgery and rehab for pancreatic cancer. He…
We heard this week from Happy Traum, who runs Homespun Videos with his wife, Jane. He expressed the anguish of so…
This remembrance of Levon Helm is a contribution from Happy Traum, co-founder of Homespun Music Instruction. “The first show I remember…
A recent release from Homespun Video, Jens Kruger’s Banjo Method For Beginners, subtitled An Easy and Joyful Way to Start Picking,…
Homespun Tapes has released a new banjo DVD from Pete Wernick, aka, Dr Banjo. Following up on his How to Make…
Homespun Video has released two new DVDs for new students of traditional American fiddle music. Both are taught by Jim Wood,…
Happy Traum, founder of Homespun Tapes, has posted a free lesson online as a Christmas gift for the many guitarists who…
Homespun has released mandolin transcription books to match two recent CDs from Butch Baldassari, Mandolin Hyms and Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer….
Pete Wernick, a.k.a. Dr. Banjo, has long been regarded as one of the pre-eminent banjo instructors in bluegrass music. His book,…
Secrets for Successful Flatpicking is the title of a new instructional DVD on Homespun Video with current, and five time IBMA…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
