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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.
Anyone interested in suggesting themselves or others for 2021 IBMA Industry or Momentum Awards should note that the deadline for submissions…
Sammy Shelor has announced a big change coming next month for Lonesome River Band. Long time guitarist Brandon Rickman is leaving…
Marcy Marxer, known to bluegrass an old time music lovers from her long-running duo with her partner, Cathy Fink, has announced…
Last week we discussed movie taglines, those one or two sentence teasers meant to entice us to rush out (or in)…
Sideline has announced that Nick Goad will join the band on mandolin, stepping into the spot recently vacated when Zack Arnold…
This past weekend saw a bluegrass wedding in North Carolina. Jacob Greer, guitarist and vocalist with Sideline, married Ally Hinson, formerly…
Tommy Edwards – photo and stylization by Carol McDuffie In our bluegrass community, some folks perform, some promote, some teach, some…
Local dignitaries and townspeople turned out last week in Mt. Airy, NC for the official dedication of The Easter Brothers mural…
Much-loved traditional bluegrass musician and teacher, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Edwards, a North Carolina native, passed away on Saturday morning, May 22, 2021. …
UN Ambassador Kelly Craft, Joe Craft, Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Dean Osborne, Scott Napier, Lauren Napier, and Natalie Tomlinson at the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
