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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.
Larry Sparks, noted for his very original style of playing the guitar and singing, bluesy elements abounding, has been in touch…
Enthusiasts of bluegrass music history will have an opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Fincastle multi-day bluegrass festival…
Johnny Thelbert Montgomery, bass player with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, passed away on September 4, 2015, in Watertown (part of…
On This Day … Starting on Friday, September 3, 1965, the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival, in Fincastle, Virginia, took place. “Wow,…
In April we mentioned that the Deep Gap, North Carolina, band Cane Mill Road had been invited to participate in a…
This is fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their…
Patsy Stoneman, described as “country music royalty” because of her long relationship with the iconic Stoneman family of talented musicians, died…
The recently re-constituted European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) board, with Irish banjo player living in Belgium Eugene O’Brien as the chairperson,…
Bluegrass music was introduced to the Netherlands by US military service men and American Forces Network Broadcasting Service. It is likely…
Charles Thurman Pugh of Galax, Virginia, bass player with the Mountain Ramblers, passed away in the Grayson Nursing and Rehab Center,…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
