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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.
As we could have predicted, a video capture of the recent triple banjo performance on The Late Show with David Letterman…
We have written a good bit this year about Tony Trischka’s latest CD, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular. Each of the project’s…
The 49th annual Grammy Awards were presented last night, and a few of our own were honored with awards. The biggest…
With New Year’s Eve upon us, let me recommend my very favorite version of the perennial December 31st classic, Auld Lang…
We posted last week about some of the press coverage from China of the current Sparrow Quartet tour. The band features…
I found an interesting piece on Xinhua online, an English language version of ChinaView.cn about a set of performances this weekend…
Destination festival Merlefest has just announced it’s artist lineup for 2007. The event is scheduled to be held April 26-29, 2007….
Béla Fleck appeared this past Monday on the This I Believe segment of NPR’s Morning Edition program. The concept behind these…
David Royko has a nice feature in today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune on Noam Pikelny, Chicago native and current banjo…
Podcasting superstar Wichita Rutherford has just opened an online store where you can purchase a DVD of The Best of 5…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music