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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.
John started this with his post about Butch Robins’ blog. Here’s another bluegrass related blog. Jack Lewis hosts an internet bluegrass…
Emerging Artist Of The Year nominee The Grascals are performing this evening at the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Celebration as part of…
On Tuesday, Bela Fleck’s Trio! (Bela, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty) performed in Boston, and they also gave a free clinic…
Well known banjo player, former Bluegrass Boy, and now successful autobiographer Butch Robins has joined the blogosphere. His new blog is…
Ross Nickerson and Angie Sumpter are once again sponsoring a Caribbean Cruise in the dead of winter with several days of…
Bluegrass fans “of a certain age” will recall the time in the 1970s when Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the then-underground rock…
Collings Mandolins and Guitars of Austin, Texas, and the Mandolin Cafe will be giving away a Collings MT2 to some lucky…
And speaking of Vassar Clements… Ampersand Records has made some video footage of Vassar in the studio available on their web…
Matt Glaser, Chair of Beklee College of Music’s String Department, has written a very nice article for Strings Magazine that remembers…
We just received a note from Rick Altis with High Ground, noting that they have been selected as the Artist Of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
