We received a note recently from Niall Toner, who hosts Roots Freeway on RTE Radio One in Dublin, Ireland. His show runs on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. (GMT/WET) and features a mix of bluegrass, old time, traditional country and blues.
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Acoustic Music Hour on KMXT – Kodiak, AK
We received a note recently from Jim Peterson, who hosts a one hour, twice weekly bluegrass radio show on KMXT in Kodiak, Alaska. His show, The Acoustic Music Hour, has been running for 14 years, and airs on Tuesdays at
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Bluegrass Music Profiles launches bluegrass chart
Bluegrass Music Profiles has been publishing a bi-monthly print magazine since 2003, focusing on the personal side of bluegrass artists and personalities. They have just announced the debut of their bluegrass music charts, based on radio airplay from their list
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Bluegrass Highway on the air in LA
We heard recently from Courtney Pitre, who hosts the Bluegrass Highway radio show on KRVS FM 88.7 in Lafayette, LA. Her show airs on Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. (CST), with a rebroadcast on Mondays at noon and reaches a radio
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High Lonesome Radio in New Mexico
We got a note from Kate Brandon, Music Director at KSIL in Silver City, NM. She wrote to let everyone know that she is broadcasting the same mix of Americana, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Folk, R&B, Roots Rock and such
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Roots Music Report launches new state based radio charts
The Roots Music Report is an online resource that reports radio play charts for a number of "roots" genres including bluegrass. Their charts are compiled based on playlists submitted by the stations/DJs. It looks fairly easy to sign up to
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WNCW Top 100 Contest
Dennis Jones over at WNCW has let us know that the station is running a contest for their Top 100 list of 2006. All you have to do is visit the station's website and cast your votes for your favorite
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass on NPR
National Public Radio's Morning Edition program had a feature this morning on the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, which takes place this weekend in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This is a free, annual event which is undertaken as a gift
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Bluegrasscountry.org now on HD Radio
Jen Hitt, production director for bluegrasscountry.org, stopped by to visit with us yesterday at Bluegrass Today booth at IBMA.The cyberstation, which provides a 24/7 bluegrass radio stream online, grew from Washington, DC's venerable WAMU radio station, where bluegrass music was
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Osborne Brothers show offered to broadcasters
We just heard from Fred Bartenstein about a special Osborne Brothers radio special he has been working on for nearly two years. It was produced by WNKU (Northern KY University) and Bgrass Inc., a nonprofit which Bartenstein chairs, dedicated to