Bluegrass Radio

Since 1992, Kirk and Becky Brandenberger have managed Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, a radio marketing and promotion service specializing in bluegrass music. Six times each year, a new volume of Prime Cuts has been delivered to hundreds of program directors and

Bad news for bluegrass fans who enjoy listening to bluegrass on one of the Music Choice networks. They have announced that their bluegrass music channel will be discontinued as of April 15, 2009. Music Choice provides the music channels for most

The Bluegrass Mix has added a new feature to their 24/7, streaming bluegrass radio service. In addition to hosted programming and nationally-syndicated shows, they now offer an uninterrupted, "no talk" stream for online listeners who prefer to hear their bluegrass without

BluegrassRadio.org has announced that they will shut down their 24/7 online bluegrass audio stream online at the end of March. President Clyde Scott has this message posted on the site's front page: It is with deep regret that I must announce

Starting next week (2/14), the live bluegrass radio series Bluegrass Underground will move to a weekly, Saturday evening slot on WSM AM 650 from Nashville. The new time is 6:00-7:00 p.m. (ET), just ahead of the Saturday Grand Ole Opry broadcast. Live

Later today (1/18) on KBCS, a special tribute to Butch Baldassari will air during Bluegrass Ramble. The show airs from noon to 3:00 p.m. (PST), and has been a staple on KBCS for almost 25 years. They feature a format of

It's not often that we see much in the way of televised bluegrass programming, much less broadcast in High Definition. If you live in central Ohio, and don't mind staying up late on Saturday evenings, you'll be able to catch some

When WAMU's Ray Davis notched his 60th year in radio broadcasting, Richard Thompson put together a nice career retrospective for us here on Bluegrass Today. This past week, Ray was celebrated with a profile in Radio World, an influential trade journal

Here are two other special bluegrass shows being cybercast online today. Blue Plate Special on WDVX has live sets from banjo picker extraordinaire Danny Barnes, and fiddler/vocalist Barbara Lamb. The show airs at noon in the Knoxville market at 102.9 FM,

We mentioned the new Rural Rhythm radio sampler last week in our post about their upcoming bluegrass CD for Michael Martin Murphey. It has been mailed to DJs and show hosts, and you should be hearing these new tracks shortly. The