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.
Find bluegrass events near you, or add your own to our searchable database.
Indoor or outdoor, see single day events and concert series here.
Bluegrass workshops, camps, and classes are listed here.
Who doesn’t love a bluegrass festival? Find them here.
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.
Our friend Tim May has put together a new workshop/camp for guitarists, aimed at providing more personalized, higher level instruction than…
Rounder Records is preparing a unique release for a new live album from banjo patriarch Earl Scruggs. Earl Scruggs with Family…
Like so many others who work in and around the bluegrass music business, Bluegrass Today will be in Nashville next week…
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], is on his way to Nashville from the UK to attend the IBMA convention…
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced a partnership with Sound Healthcare and the National Business Associations to offer affordable heath…
Could picking the banjo be the answer to your investment concerns? Possibly. Everyone, I’m guessing even bluegrass fans, who is invested…
Applications are now being accepted for bands wishing to perform at the 2009 European World Of Bluegrass. The festival runs from…
Recently the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced the names of the two inductees to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of…
After a four year hiatus from recording, Carl Towns returns with his band, The Remnant. Bringing his influences from various musics…
Earlier this month (September 12-13) Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder was among the headliners at the Gstaad Country Night festival in…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
