As promised, here are the year-end results of our weekly grassicana radio playlist chart, displayed as a 2019 Top 30. It was compiled by combining results from our 52 Bluegrass Today Grassicana Weekly Airplay chart reports over the year. ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Infamous Stringdusters Rise Sun Tape Time
Happy 2020 to you! I’ve made only one resolution this year, and that is not to write a full New Year’s Day column. Instead, I’m going to use this time to clean my office. This will be especially challenging since
As we all prepare for New Year's Eve festivities this evening, here's Steve Huber from Huber Banjos with a banjo arrangement of Auld Lang Syne. There have been many versions of this classic song for banjo, and Steve has created a
Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2019. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over
Hearing a CD from The Grascals for the first time is like having an old friend drop by. Even if you haven’t seen each other for a while, you know just what to expect and get comfortable right off the
This past summer Aynsley Porchak, the super talented fiddler with Carolina Blue, came up with a great idea for a social media promotion. A devoted student of Kenny Baker, Porchak set out to record and post a video of her
After 30 years of successful touring in the United States and Canada, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have announced their first ever overseas performance coming up early in 2020. The band will be heading to Prague in the Czech Republic
Almost since we launched Bluegrass Today in the fall of 2011, we have offered a free, twice-monthly email newsletter on successful bluegrass marketing, written by Barry Silverstein. When he retired from his career as a direct marketing professional, Barry took to
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the candidates selected to attend their 2020 Leadership Bluegrass sessions in Nashville this March. Each year the organization chooses roughly two dozen individuals working in the bluegrass world in a competitive process to spend
First… a bit of background… According to his website, Jason Barie grew up in Florida, picked up his first fiddle at the age of 10, took classical music lessons beginning in the fifth grade, learned to play bluegrass at a local music
