Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
Focus in on artists who play bluegrass music from all over the world
The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
What’s happening at shows and festivals you might want to see
What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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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.
Special Consensus mandolinist Ashby Frank has agreed to send us updates and photos from their current tour of Britain and Ireland….
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is getting ready to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. You didn’t know Lincoln was a bluegrasser?…
Music Think Tank has a post up today with an idea for a better way to book shows for live music….
Bluegrass sensations Dailey & Vincent will take their award winning sound to the stage of The Fitzgerald theater in St. Paul,…
The Pick One concert tour we told you about in December has largely come and gone, taking a star-studded bluegrass package…
The gala events surrounding the inauguration of our new president are about to get underway, and I’ve just learned that banjoist…
Special Consensus is leaving today for a three week tour of Britain and Ireland, with shows scheduled in Ireland, England and…
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…
The package show was a staple of the early rock and roll, and rhythm and blues scenes. These were touring shows…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
