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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.
The 25th MerleFest was a blast and I had an amazing time shooting all of the spectacular musicians. This was my…
The producers of the upcoming Porchlight Sessions film have assembled this set of outtakes from the many hours of footage they…
Congratulations to Alison Krauss & Union Station for being awarded the Best Bluegrass Album at the 2012 Grammies for Paper Airplane….
Here’s the incomparable Béla Fleck with a solo banjo medley of Christmas favorites recorded in a 2009 Flecktones concert in Chicago.
Tony Trischka was last week’s special Master Class presenter at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. As we reported this…
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones were musical guests on last night’s (11/14) episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, performing in…
Andy Statman has been something of an enigma to the bluegrass world for the past 40 years. Clearly a master mandolinist…
The Banjo Project documentary is to be aired November 4, as part of the PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains…
Noam Pikelny’s new banjo album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, drops tomorrow (10/25), and we will run an interview…
Here are some shots Dean Hoffmeyer took roaming the halls of the Nashville Convention Center and The Station Innon Wednesday (9/27).
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music