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.
Last week I tried to break on-stage MC work down to basics to make the mission seem less daunting for anyone…
Something that you or your band must eventually face (besides your sound check and your non-existent retirement plan), is that at…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners has taken time away from his book tour promoting his new bestseller, Jam Session Offenses, Real and Simulated…
Since it has been established in the advertising world that if you can identify a niche, you can target it, it…
Last week, after passing along some of the findings in my research into the whereabouts of some familiar characters in bluegrass…
People always seem interested in where music celebrities, or lesser-known one-hit wonder types, have disappeared to. I seem to recall VH-1,…
We’ve all been seeing the ways in which AI technology is already being used to improve our lives, that is before…
For some reason, pandemic nostalgia perhaps, there has been a whole new round of comments about an editorial written by David…
Last week I was preoccupied with another side business I have, which is the raising of prize miniature llamas (one of…
People that are new to bluegrass music sometimes need some help in translating our jargon. Hearing that someone is “tearing it…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
