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.
Find bluegrass events near you, or add your own to our searchable database.
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Bluegrass workshops, camps, and classes are listed here.
Who doesn’t love a bluegrass festival? Find them here.
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.
Jayme Stone is a banjo player who has defied a great many of the expectations associated with the instrument. His music…
Banjo player John Drummond was hoping for success when he started his own business, unicycle.com, in 1999, but his hopes didn’t…
The American Made Banjo Company has launched a new fund raising effort based on their line of cryogenically-treated banjo strings. The…
We posted last Friday with a story out of Folsom, CA regarding a stolen banjo and how police were closing in…
Recording King has announced the latest model in their Artist series of banjos, designed to appeal to players looking for a…
America’s Most Wanted – Banjo Edition… CBS 13 in Sacramento, CA has the news of two banjo bandits who obtained a…
We just received a note from our friend Richard Hawkins, who operates The Bluegrass Ireland Blog, and also contributes to The…
Banjo For Dummies, the book from Wiley Publishing we first told you about last December, is now available for sale. Written…
We’ve posted several times over the past two years about online workshops hosted at The Banjo Lounge, with participants joining in…
Mel Bay has a new book of banjo transcriptions, American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style, taken from the classic Folkways field…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
