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.
Judging by the hate mail, the slashed tires, and the kidnapping of my goldfish, I’d say last week’s column was a…
This was the column I was hoping to get someone else to write for me. It was the one that was…
This is the third in a series on stage-show MC work. In the previous installment, I tried to answer a few…
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 a non-existent retirement plan), is that at some point, usually no…
Somewhere deep in my file of road stories, I have an unpleasant recollection of spreading out a sleeping bag on the…
Greetings from the road. My family and I are en route from Alberta to Nashville before we head to Morganton, NC….
People have lately been asking me to explain the hierarchy of bluegrass music (and by “people,” I mean my cousin Jimmy)….
Recently we discussed bluegrass urban legends, but it has since come to my attention that we have a lot bigger things…
We’ve all been the recipient of urban legends or scams at one time, forwarded to us by email. In one of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
