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.
The IBMA Foundation has opened sales for their 2023 Strings for Dreams raffle, with proceeds benefitting the work of the Foundation…
Bluegrass recording artist and impresario Lorraine Jordan will have yet another feather in her cap in a couple of weeks. On…
This remembrance of Japanese bluegrass artist and scholar Toru Mitsui is a contribution from Neil V. Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus in the…
Toronto’s Slocan Ramblers have been getting noticed increasingly this past few years for their fresh take on contemporary bluegrass. They were…
Surely one of the most influential bluegrass groups of the 1970s was Lost & Found, based in Ferrum, VA. They toured…
First place band, Passin’ Thru (Rodney Haywood, CH Lineberry, Jim Damron, Dwayne Runyon) After a three-year hiatus due to COVID, the…
Pamm Gadd has a long history in bluegrass music as a player, singer, and songwriter. While many people’s primary memory of…
MerleFest has some big news to announce as they celebrate their 35th year in 2023, and the 100th anniversary of the…
Bluegrass Vacation could be considered Robbie Fulks‘ return to his roots, both theoretically and in terms of practical purposes. Fulks’ initial…
Writers are always counseled to write what they know. That’s not an issue for Irene Kelley, who has created a cabin…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
