Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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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.
There’s a school of thought that says you can’t teach songwriting. Folks can either write lyrics and compose interesting melodies, or…
Poor Claire Lynch. She’s had to go through the Summer without her bass player, Mark Schatz, who has been out touring…
Bob Perilla & Big Hillbilly Bluegrass is preparing to take another trip east to the Sultanate of Oman in northeastern Africa….
Can a group of Nashville bluegrass superpickers recall the power and precision of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain…
Starting this Fall semester, the Renaissance Bluegrass Band at Bethel University will be directed by Stephen Mougin. Known for his work…
The arrival of a new Doyle Lawson CD in the mailbox is cause for joy. Even before the plastic wrapper is…
Last Friday saw two new Bluegrass Today radio airplay charts, with both our weekly and monthly charts hitting on the same…
The PBS Newshour, broadcast nightly during the week on hundreds of public television stations across the US, aired a special report…
Fans that stayed up late enough at the first night of this month’s Red Wing Roots Festival at the Natural Chimneys…
After a musical career as a sideman (sidewoman?) spanning 13 years, fiddler, banjo picker and singer/songwriter Becky Buller is fleeing the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music