Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
Focus in on artists who play bluegrass music from all over the world
The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
What’s happening at shows and festivals you might want to see
What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
Band news, weddings, births, and obituaries, plus our bluegrass crosswords.
Find bluegrass events near you, or add your own to our searchable database.
Indoor or outdoor, see single day events and concert series here.
Bluegrass workshops, camps, and classes are listed here.
Who doesn’t love a bluegrass festival? Find them here.
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.
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Peter Thompson, noted California bluegrass D.J. and former concert organizer, recently e-mailed out a copy of Woody Guthrie’s New Years resolutions…
Welcome to our first annual Mr. Bluegrass Manners – Christmas Edition. Mr. Bluegrass Manners has taken time out of his busy…
’Tis the busy season, and I’m doing lots of SiriusXM fill-in work this week, so I’m going to pull one out…
At some point in the holiday season, somewhere between attending school Christmas concerts and swilling egg nog at some other social…
One of the most important cliche phrases of “the teens” (2013 – present), aside from “drink the Kool-aid,” “going forward,” and,…
This being the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you would naturally be expecting a Thanksgiving-y column, perhaps a list of bluegrass things to…
We return this week to one of my favorite subjects: band names. It’s probably in my top five, ranked somewhere between…
It’s been a busy week that has taken me from Alberta to northern Minnesota (via Toronto), back to Alberta and now…
Co-writing songs is more commonplace in bluegrass music than it used to be, but it is by no means new. Some…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
