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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.
Chase Bennett (banjoist with Caroline Owens) and his wife, Maggie, of Canton, NC, welcome their firstborn, a daughter, Callie June Bennett….
The IBMA Foundation has announced that Steven Ware from Waco, TX is the winner of their 2024 Strings for Dreams Bluegrass…
Lincoln Hensley with one of Sonny Osborne’s vintage Vega banjos Lincoln Hensley is a young man in his mid-20s with an…
Banjo NewsLetter, the print magazine dedicated to three finger and clawhammer banjo that was published from 1973 to 2021, has announced…
We heard yesterday from Wyatt Harman, who is the bass player for the Harman & Ruble Band in St Louis, MO….
Pinecastle recording artists Nick Chandler & Delivered have announced a personnel change. North Carolina banjo picker Jake Burrows has come onboard…
Mountain Home Music has a new single from North Carolina banjoist Tray Wellington, an instrumental he wrote called Blue Collared Dog…
Bela Fleck performs Rhapsody in Blue at Carnegie Hall (5/4/24) – photo © Jen Hughes Béla Fleck’s Rhythm, Raga, and Rhapsody,…
We are accustomed to writing about new books written by Dan Levenson, the popular old time banjo player and fiddler, whose…
Ask a banjo player what they like to play most, and chances are they’ll tell you that playing behind a vocalist…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
