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.
If this week’s column seems at all disjointed, it’s only because The Night Drivers and I are in the studio all…
It seems that I have again stirred up a firestorm of controversy with the last two or three columns about certain…
It occurred to me that while I was sounding off about types of gigs that bluegrass bands should avoid, I was…
After my recent column about bar gigs, I suggested that, though we all enjoy complaining about them, they’re still worthwhile venues…
I wasn’t really expecting this, but last week’s column about playing in bars prompted an unusual amount of emails and questions…
When road musicians get together, reminiscing about gigs past is a pretty typical sort of conversation. There can be fond memories…
The road can be dreary. This fact struck a deep and resonant chord with me again recently while driving between West…
We’ve spent some time here discussing altered and erroneous song titles and lyrics, mostly blaming the mistakes on good old human…
I’m pleased to announce that not only did I find it a very satisfying IBMA World of Bluegrass this year, I’m…
From the IBMA World of Bluegrass: I realized this morning, in between a workshop on murder ballads in the key of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
