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
Band news, weddings, births, and obituaries, plus our bluegrass crosswords.
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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.
Songwriter Louisa Branscomb’s name is a familiar one in bluegrass circles. As a songwriter, she holds the record for the longest…
Listen now: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/ep56_alan_bibey.mp3] (IE users click to activate) This week on The GrassCast we continue our theme of interviewing members of…
No one who has attended one of Bill Evans’ banjo workshops, or studied using one of his popular AcuTab banjo DVDs,…
The Chris Thile music video we teased about in October has been released, and can be viewed on CMT.com. It’s for…
Dennis Jones over at WNCW has let us know that the station is running a contest for their Top 100 list…
The Banjo Lounge will be hosting an online workshop with progressive banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh on December 17 at 3:00 p.m….
The New York Times recently (Nov 28, 2006) ran an article titled String Theory: New Approaches to Instrument Design. You do…
Dan Erlewine, noted luthier and product development specialist for Stewart-MacDonald, has launched a new email newsletter called Trade Secrets. Dan described…
Richard Harrington, of the Washington Post, wrote a story entitled The 12 Discs of Christmas, and Rhonda Vincent’s Christmas CD, Beautiful…
Listen now: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/ep55_phil_leadbetter.mp3] (IE users click to activate) This week on The GrassCast our guest if award winning dobro player Phil…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
