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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.
Not long ago I came across a new blog site called Culture 11. The site’s authors say their goal with the…
Cindy Baucom sent in a couple photos from the past weekend at the North Carolina Banjo Clinic in Burnsville, NC. The…
Rock group The Raconteurs are retelling a recent single, Old Enough. The song is from their CD Consolers of the Lonely,…
A mission team from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY recently took the Gospel, and some bluegrass, on a…
For our readers who enjoyed Richard Thompson’s IBMA travelogue entries, here’s another that you may enjoy. This one comes to us…
Following on the heels of a successful International Bluegrass Summit at this year’s IBMA, a European Bluegrass Summit is planned to…
The November 2008 edition of MoonShiner Magazine marks the 26th birthday for the Japanese language magazine. Congratulations MoonShiner! Moonshiner (translated page)…
November 30 is the deadline for submissions in this year’s Bluegrass Lesson Plan Competition. The contest is part of IBMA’s efforts…
We brought you news in September that European World of Bluegrass Festival was accepting band applications. The deadline for that application…
A while back Modern Guitars conducted an interview with bluegrass guitarist and luthier Wayne Henderson. The interview was published at the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music