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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.
The Walnut Valley Festival was launched in 1972 when a guitar maker [the late Stuart Mossman], a farmer [Bob Redford], and…
Béla Fleck’s Bluegrass Happening in Grand Rapids, MI (6/27/22) – photo © Bryan Bolea Photographer Bryan Bolea was on hand when…
The banjo has lengthy origins dating all the way back to the 1870s. Since the 1990s, banjoist Bill Evans has concisely…
Are you usually relegated to the status of opening act? Do you find yourself longing to be the closer? On the…
The Family Sowell has released a music video for their current single, Building Walls, written by Abigail and Joshua Sowell, who…
Bluegrass singer Brayden Williamson has long appreciated the legacy that Bill Monroe left, and has done much to build on that…
Welcome Tall Poppy String Band, a newly-formed old time trio consisting of banjo player Cameron DeWhitt in Portland, OR; fiddler George…
Kody Norris Show accept Blue Blaze award at the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree – photo by Dwayne Page/WJLE radio Standing on stage…
A Midwesterner who’s well adept at fiddle and old time music spawned from the Ozark Mountains in particular, Kevin Buckley shares…
As the new century started, Breakin’ Strings was a popular bluegrass group in the northeastern US. Based in Maine, the band…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
