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When Steve Martin was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005 by The Kennedy Center, they commissioned a custom, one-of-a-kind banjo from Gibson to present to him. It was a gold plated model, engraved with his name

Closing out our years-end charts for 2019, here are the Top 30 Gospel songs as played on bluegrass radio last year. The chart is generated by combing all the results from our Bluegrass Today Weekly Gospel Airplay chart.   ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Alan Bibey &

As promised, here are the year-end results of our weekly grassicana radio playlist chart, displayed as a 2019 Top 30. It was compiled by combining results from our 52 Bluegrass Today Grassicana Weekly Airplay chart reports over the year.   ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS TOTAL 1 Infamous Stringdusters Rise Sun Tape Time

As we all prepare for New Year's Eve festivities this evening, here's Steve Huber from Huber Banjos with a banjo arrangement of Auld Lang Syne. There have been many versions of this classic song for banjo, and Steve has created a

Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2019. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over

This past summer Aynsley Porchak, the super talented fiddler with Carolina Blue, came up with a great idea for a social media promotion. A devoted student of Kenny Baker, Porchak set out to record and post a video of her

Almost since we launched Bluegrass Today in the fall of 2011, we have offered a free, twice-monthly email newsletter on successful bluegrass marketing, written by Barry Silverstein. When he retired from his career as a direct marketing professional, Barry took to

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the candidates selected to attend their 2020 Leadership Bluegrass sessions in Nashville this March. Each year the organization chooses roughly two dozen individuals working in the bluegrass world in a competitive process to spend

Geraldine is a Baltimore-based old time band whose debut recording, Harvester, is available now online. Though only playing together for a short time, this bunch already has a repertoire of original material written within the band. They take their name from

Bluegrass Now at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum (12/19/19) - photo by John Partipilo Last Friday night saw an historic concert at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, with an all-star cast of bluegrass celebrities on