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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.
Australian guitar whiz Tommy Emmanuel is continuing his collaborations concept forward into a second album, Accomplice Two, due out in April…
Along with working as a freelance musician in Nashville, TN, banjoist Charles Butler is a skilled composer. Centered around exciting and…
Billy Strings at The Bridgestone Area in Nashville (2/25/23) – photo © Jesse Faatz Young bluegrass phenom Billy Strings played two…
The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the recipients of their 2023…
This is my 500th column for Bluegrass Today. This has taken me a little by surprise; I thought I had run…
Edgar Loudermilk and the City of Toccoa, Georgia are working together to promote the very first Toccoa Ritz Bluegrass Festival this…
Once again, Lindley Creek has released a feel-good bluegrass song with their latest single for Pinecastle Records. The Creek is a…
Greensky Bluegrass in Grand Rapids, MI (2/22/23) – photo © Bryan Bolea With a slow moving ice storm closing schools, knocking…
The East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program, which is included in the school’s Appalachian Studies department,…
Bill Evans — he of banjo and bluegrass fame as opposed to the jazz musician of the same name — spent…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
