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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.
Sierra Hull is in the studio again this month trying to finish up her third project for Rounder Records, which is…
This set of reflections on a Béla Fleck/Abigail Washburn concert is a first contribution from Jen Hughes, a new writer we…
The last set of the night at the Red Hat Amphitheater on Friday, at Wide Open Bluegrass, was heaven. Billed as…
As we all knew they would, someone recorded Béla Fleck’s Keynote Address to the 2014 IBMA World of Bluegrass Business Conference,…
If it’s time for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass, it must be time for another keynote address by a “name” player who…
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn: husband and wife, parents, musicians, touring partners, and now studio duet collaborators. Rounder Records has announced…
The PBS Newshour, broadcast nightly during the week on hundreds of public television stations across the US, aired a special report…
During 2011 while Béla Fleck was writing his banjo concerto, The Imposter, he was closely tailed by filmmaker Sascha Paladino to capture…
Attention talented young string players… Applications for the 2014 Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival must be turned in…
Mercury Classics has released The Impostor, a new project from Béla Fleck, including a pair of long-form Fleck compositions recorded with…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
