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.
The deadline for submissions in the International Acoustic Music Awards is rapidly approaching, with entries requiring a postmark no later than…
Bluegrass Today podcast we started a while back has been moved. It was originally intended only to be an occasional podcast…
One of the highlights of the annual Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend each year is the Saturday evening faculty concert. The primary focus…
Nashville Public Radio station WPLN has an audio report on the recent IBMA convention, which you can access via their web…
I just got a note from Donald Nitchie about the next issue of Banjo Newsletter. In the November issue of the…
We found a few more articles in the online versions of print papers covering the IBMA events this past week. The…
Billboard.com, the online version of Billboard magazine, has a brief article about the IBMA Awards, written by Deborah Evans Price. It…
This year looks to be a great one for Cherryholmes at IBMA. They are nominated for a number of awards, including…
We have found a few stories in the Nashville papers about the IBMA presence here this week. Here’s a story from…
The 2005 International Songwriting Competition deadline for submission is October 31. We don’t know a whole lot about this contest, but…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
