Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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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.
We’ve posted before about appeals from artists to generate start-up capital, recording, or travel costs directly from their fans. It’s so…
Who doesn’t love a cute kid singing a Bill Monroe song? Proud papa Kazuhiro Inaba sent along photos and a video…
We hate to sound like a gossip site, but… It has come to our attention that the United States Postal Service…
Valerie Smith and her producer, fiddler and vocalist Beck Buller take us for a visit through the facilities of the International…
Sunday’s New York Times had a piece about a major acquisition by The Library Of Congress: a huge number of master…
Mandolin Cafe and Northfield Mandolins are giving away a Model NF-F5M F-Style mandolin, valued at $2500. To enter, you simply need…
We have learned that Ralph Stanley was hospitalized yesterday and an emergency pacemaker was installed. James Alan Shelton reports that he…
Dennis Jones, host of Goin’ Across The Mountain radio show Saturdays on WNCW, tells us that he will feature an Earl…
We had a chance yesterday to catch up with Alan Bibey, one half of the brain trust (with Steve Gulley) behind…
The Infamous Stringdusters have begun a lengthy tour of the west coast and upper midwest, scheduled to run though the month…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
