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.
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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.
After last week’s column, I was inundated with requests for more uninteresting stories from the world of bluegrass, or any other…
While in England recently, I was looking through the local newspaper and came across the headline “County gets new non-emergency number.”…
Bluegrass musicians, and musical artists in general, often fall into a category of people who have a hard time with the…
Jim Lauderdale (I call him “Jim”) does a characteristically hilarious name-dropping bit on stage, which often involves the names of semi-famous…
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks that saw The Night Drivers and me going from Bean Blossom, Indiana to Huck…
When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970’s, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live…
I realize this probably dates me, but I’m not a very good texter. I do have what is, technically speaking, a…
International touring is something that most professional musicians will have an opportunity to do at some point in their careers, and…
I’m writing this from an airplane heading west back to North America after a short European tour. Since the flight is…
Last week, based on comments I received here and elsewhere, it seems that I suddenly became the best friend of sound…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
