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.
For the next two weeks, The GrassCast will focus on bluegrass songwriters. Episode 33 is a discussion with Mark “Brink” Brinkman,…
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) just announced the 2006 recipients of the NEA National Heritage Fellowships. Doyle Lawson has…
Rhonda Vincent will be the guest this week on Kyle Cantrell’s Studio Special program, which runs on XM Satellite Radio’s Bluegrass…
We just heard from David Russell with The Bluegrass Journal, who shared a note he had received from Ernie Thacker. Regular…
Updated 6/16, 7:00 a.m. The recent history of bluegrass music has seen the occasion of a number of “part time” bands,…
We posted yesterday with news that Kristin and Wayne Benson were expecting their first child in October. We mentioned that we…
Mountain Stage, the long-running roots music radio show hosted by Larry Groce, and now also offered on television, will travel to…
It is announced on the Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time web site that Kristin Benson is expecting. Kristin plays banjo…
The June/July issue of Bluegrass Europe is available. This bimonthly, English language magazine is distributed to members of the European Bluegrass…
Mandolinist Scott Napier has recently become the newest member of the Dale Ann Bradley band. I had to opportunity to speak…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
