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.
Watching Kristin Scott Benson on stage with The Grascals, it’s easy to imagine her as the shy and retiring type. She…
We heard this morning from R. B. Powell,from Lewistown, PA, a banjo picker and promoter of scholarships for young musicians. He…
The bluegrass festival season is just getting underway in earnest for 2016, and already the big news is the return of…
Tom Nechville and his Nechville Musical Products company is celebrating 30 years of banjo building with a new limited production model…
Sad news from British Columbia for fans of J. Romero Banjos and old time musicians Pharis and Jason Romero. Fire destroyed…
This article is a contribution from Cindy Faulkner, a writer and bluegrass fan living near Raleigh, NC. After Marc Pruett received a…
Surely there is no greater shock in life than the sudden, tragic loss of a young person. The bluegrass world lost…
Deering Banjo Company has introduced a new banjo bridge design, so new that they have applied for a patent. Their Smile…
Ray Hesson, renowned banjoist from southern Maryland, died on Tuesday (May 24) after a long illness. He was 74 years of…
To help promote his new Broadway musical, Bright Star, written with Edie Brickell, Steve Martin has created and is giving away…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
