Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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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.
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Volume Five has been releasing some of the best new modern traditional bluegrass around for the past several years. Their most…
Much of the world’s attention in late March was centered just east of Seattle, WA where a devastating mudslide took the…
Last weekend, GuitartownCT Productions held their Tony Rice benefit at the Unitarian Hall in Hamden, CT. A bevy of top northeastern…
We banjo players have endured unkind banjo jokes for as long as we’ve been playing. Always derogatory, often at the expense…
Washington, DC area banjo player Joe Zauner has joined Patent Pending. Zauner, who has been playing banjo since 1973, is like…
We have learned that Billy Hawks, fiddler with Junior Sisk & Rambler’s Choice, will be leaving the band after today’s performance…
Ask any musicologist about the origins of old time and bluegrass music, and a disquisition on banjo and fiddle music won’t…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
