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.
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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.
Banjoist Jayme Stone and mandolinist John Reischman each received a JUNO nomination from The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences…
Gibson has been posting free instructional videos on their web site of late. Most of them have reflected the larger size…
Our friend Laura Leder from Cool Mandolin Company emailed recently to ask us to remind students of bluegrass and old time…
Ernie Thacker has signed with Pinecastle Records to release his next CD. The as yet untitled project is finished, and expected…
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville has just announced the list of this year’s inductees, all of whom have…
Bluegrass has always been a highly participatory genre, with a higher than average number of fans being amateur or part time…
Resonator guitarist and vocalist Randy Kohrs has named several new members of his touring band, The Lites. Joining Randy and existing…
Ben Eldridge, Dudley Connell and Fred Travers from Seldom Scene joined Bob Edwards on the radio last Saturday for his Bob…
As we ponder the results of the 2008 Grammies – and breathe a sigh of relief that Cherryholmes didn’t have to…
As promised, here are a few more photos from the recent Mountain Heart visit to Switzerland. Jim Van Cleve passed along…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
