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.
This new episode features an interview John did with Jamie Johnson about three weeks ago in Nashville. Jamie spoke with us…
We just learned that Thomas Wyrot has joined Alecia Nugent’s Band on banjo. Thomas had recently been performing as a guitarist…
Later this afternoon, you can catch an interview with Lonesome River Band’s Sammy Shelor on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Sam will join WWB host…
This piece of news is not directly Bluegrass related, but I thought it might be of interest to some of our…
We also heard last week from Fred Carpenter, who runs The Violin Shop in Nashville. He shared some of his plans…
We heard from Tom Mirisola with Kel Kroydon Banjos last week, and he told us that he has officially changed the…
Many of you may remember the first time world renowned podcast superstar, Wichita Rutherford, posted a Guest Contributor piece here on…
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting two Monroe-Style Mandolin Camps this month. The first camp runs September 8-10 and the…
Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo, has just added a new message board to his web site. It is designed to allow…
David Royko has a nice feature in today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune on Noam Pikelny, Chicago native and current banjo…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
