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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.
Lovers of the banjo have much to celebrate in this first half of the year, with two carefully researched and prepared…
This review of a recent Tony Trischka concert is a contribution from Jack Tottle. When Tony Trischka steps into the spotlight…
Deering Banjo Company has introduced a new edition of their signature Mark Johnson Clawgrass model, designed to offer the same tone…
We heard this week from noted Spanish banjoist and teacher, Lluis Gómez, with a report on the first bluegrass instruction camp held…
Bluegrass banjo icon Raymond Fairchild is doing well, recuperating at home after undergoing surgery last week. Some complications arose following the…
John Treadway of Taylorsville, NC has been announced as the newest member of Big Country Bluegrass. He will be playing banjo…
Here’s another new video released today. It’s a song from Ashleigh Caudill’s upcoming album, Looney Bird, one she wrote called A…
Laurent Dubois says he thinks of his new book, The Banjo – America’s African Instrument, as a biography of the banjo….
The horrors! Slobbering five-stringers have been invited to drool all over the proceedings at this year’s Monroe Mandolin Camp in Nashville….
Mike Holmes, founder of Music Camps North, passed away on February 18. He was 74 years of age. He had retired…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music