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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.
The National Endowment for the Arts will offer a live webcast of Friday’s (9/24) concert celebrating the 2010 National Heritage Fellowships…
We posted this past spring about CA Guitars closing up shop and going out of business, news that was most unwelcome…
As the staff of WAMU’s Bluegrass Country prepares to spend next week in Nashville for IBMA, they have dedicated this week…
Rhonda Vincent is taking her music to New York City for the official premier of her new CD, Taken. She has…
Virtuosic young fiddler Alex Hargreaves has been named the recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music…
Back in July, we posted about the job being advertised for a Bluegrass Lecturer at East Tennessee State University. The full…
NPR and Folk Alley have posted the audio from the 2010 Americana Music Awards show online. The 2.5 hour show, hosted…
September 9 marked the 14th anniversary of Bill Monroe’s passing , and NPR’s All Thing’s Considered took the occasion to remember…
Serious students of the 5 string banjo have long been plagued by a malady known as flyaway fingers. This dread disease…
The highly anticipated, self-titled debut CD from The Boxcars won’t drop until October 19, but Mountain Home Records has just released…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music