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.
Friends and family of Patrick Robertson, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has been a mainstay in the southwestern Virginia bluegrass scene…
When playing a show in Chicago recently, I stopped to eat at a Greek restaurant on the northwest side of the…
The International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville is in search of an Events Director for the organization, which functions as a…
Nick Dumas & Branchline at Hollow Point Farm (2/22/26) – photo © Bill Warren Bruce and Jody Watson open their home…
When Smithsonian Magazine published a list of 250 Places to Celebrate America during this semiquincentennial year, they included the Bluegrass Music…
We heard recently from Justin Mason, a prominent Florida bluegrass artist and personality, who has relocated to the nation’s capitol, and…
Mandolinist and singer Nick Dumas has been named as the newest member of Illinois’ long-standing traditional bluegrass band, Bluegrass Express. This…
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games got me thinking about bluegrass “athletic” competitions, and brought back a memory of an IBMA World…
It may be the one thing touring artists fear the worst – becoming ill while on the road. Of course there…
Late last month we wrote about Rick Faris and a banjo that seemed to have been taken at the SPBGMA convention…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
