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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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.
Our friend Ted Lehmann spent last week at Merlefest, and provides some excellent reporting on his web site – along with…
The BBC has a terrific slide show with commentary online about Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart project, which has resulted…
Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school’s embrace of country,…
Bluegrass balladeer Cliff Waldron is scheduled for kidney transplant surgery on Monday (4/27) near his home in Northern Virginia. His wife…
We posted a note earlier this week about the birth of Joshua Andrew Miller, newborn son of NewFound Road’s banjo man,…
When I started learning to play bluegrass music as a teenager in the mid-1970s, the bluegrass mecca was the Washington, DC…
It’s been ten years since the Sam Bush model Gibson mandolin was introduced to market. During that time, it has been…
WAMU’s Bluegrass Country and Bluegrass Unlimited magazine have joined forces to bring a new monthly radio program to the air, starting…
Here’s video from the performance from The Infamous Stringdusters earlier this week on Let’s Talk Live, broadcast on Newschannel 8 in…
We have learned that Margie Sullivan, of The Sullivan Family, is hospitalized in Mobile, AL after suffering a massive heart attack…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
