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 G7 Capo company is introducing a new model at the Winter NAMM show this week in Anaheim, CA. Their new…
Famed Nashville Country music song-writer Sanger D. ‘Whitey’ Shafer passed away this past Saturday, January 12, 2019, following a long illness. He…
Longtime bluegrass and country music songwriter Tom T Hall has been announced as a 2019 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of…
After three years running his successful mandolin camp near Myrtle Beach, SC, Alan Bibey has announced that he is expanding the…
If you’ve visited the main page of the mega-search site Google this week, you’ll have seen this lovely tribute to the…
Bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang has announced that the recipient of the 1st annual Rick Lang Music Scholarship is Alexis Hamilton-Mele. As…
Paula Breedlove is a rarity in the song-writing fraternity in that she doesn’t play a musical instrument. So, she worked…
If you are a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and want to get course credit for…
Great news for lovers, players, and builders of fine, handmade acoustic guitars! GuitarBench Magazine is back after a hiatus of nearly…
The Monroe Mandolin Camp, hosted the past five years by Mike Compton and Heidi Herzog, will also hold a series of Mini-Mon-Camp…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
