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.
There is now one more bluegrass podcast in circulation over the internet. Planet Bluegrass is now hosting a bi-weekly podcast featuring…
Nothin’ Fancy fiddler Chris Sexton’s solo CD, Coffee At Midnight, which was released in October of 2005, is generating some great…
The March issue of Silver Strings – a banjo “ezine” for new pickers getting started later in life – is now…
Planet Bluegrass has just announced the complete lineup for this years RockyGrass bluegrass festival. The festival takes place in Lyons, CO…
Those who keep an eye on the values of older fretted stringed instruments have watched the prices steadily climb of late…
We mentioned last week in The GrassCast episode #17 that Alecia Nugent’s sophomore release for Rounder Records, A Little Girl…A Big…
The Richmond Times Dispatch website recently posted a story about Audie Blaylock. It’s a nice article with some good background info…
The first class isn’t expected to be enrolled until the fall of 2007, but planning, curriculum development and staff and faculty…
Butch Baldassari has announced that he is experimenting with realtime mandolin lessons over the internet via webcasting. He’s planning both private…
It seems that these notes about bluegrass artists creating pages on MySpace.com are becoming a regular occurrence. Find our previous posts…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
