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.
Steve Lewis, from Todd, NC (a tiny community just north of Boone) was gracious enough to talk with me about his…
US grassers are rapidly getting used to the idea of bluegrass music being a truly international endeavor. It may be, and…
The folks at Wiley Publishing have generated one of the few print media powerhouses in this age of declining magazine and…
Jack Hatfield reminded us yesterday that his Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy has moved back to Pigeon Forge, TN, and will be…
Finally! The 2014 film How To Write A Banjo Concerto, which follows Béla Fleck through the process of conceiving and composing…
Folks in south central Virginia have known Jody King for years, both as a first rate musician on banjo, mandolin, and…
The Kevin Prater Band has announced the addition of Tyler Robertson on banjo. Tyler is just 19 years old, but has…
One of the interesting trends of the early 20th century was the fascination with converting all sorts of stringed instruments into…
We had posted back in January about Bud Bennett, the Appalachian Music Specialist at Radford University’s McConnell Library, and his series of videos…
Despite the textual paradox, 15 year old Victor Furtado is indeed a master of old time, or clawhammer banjo. He has…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
