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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.
In keeping with Sam Bush’s Keynote admonition about supporting new music from a younger generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians, we…
Bluestar is a new “special project” band recently formed to tour in support of Rick Lang’s terrific Look To The Light…
This post is a contribution from Terri Holloway, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. See her profile here. Bluegrass, apparently, isn’t…
Talented young banjo picker Russ Carson has been announced as the newest member of Audie Blaylock and Redline. Russ had been…
Jill Geary from San Diego, CA is the winner of the Grand Prize in the 2010 World Of Bluegrass Sweepstakes. This…
Marty Raybon had to cancel his scheduled appearance yesterday at the Nothin’ Fancy Bluegrass Festival in Virginia. He is hospitalized in…
I well remember The Hotmud Family, a fixture on the string music festival circuit in the 1970s.There was no one named…
Here’s some unfortunate news on what was hailed only weeks ago as a promising new partnership. The agreement we announced on…
Summertown Road has added a new lane, bringing on celebrated fiddler Steve Thomas, and marking the band’s debut as a quintet….
We have learned that banjo legend Bill Emerson is being treated for pneumonia in a DC-area hospital. Doctors there expect to…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
