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.
Paul Schiminger, IBMA; Paul Bailey, State Senate; Jerry Lowery, Hoyt Jones, Jim Floyd, Aldermen, City of Sparta, TN; Jeff Young, Sparta Mayor;…
A CD release concert is a pretty big deal, and a CD release concert at a museum dedicated to perhaps the…
Johnny Thelbert Montgomery, bass player with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, passed away on September 4, 2015, in Watertown (part of…
Sparta is the city in central Tennessee closest to where bluegrass legend Lester Flatt was born in 1914. Located 95 miles…
Though the actual birthdate was marked earlier this Summer, the City of Sparta, TN is throwing a free music festival tomorrow…
How much memorabilia would a prominent bluegrass promoter and talent agent accumulate in a lifetime? If you live near Nashville you…
On This Day …. On June 19, 1914, Lester Flatt was born in Duncan’s Chapel, in Overton County, Tennessee. Had he…
The 100th anniversary of Lester Flatt’s birthdate is on June 19 this year and many residents of his home town, Sparta,…
Gladys Flatt (nee Stacey) passed away on Monday (March 31, 2014) at NHC Healthcare of Sparta, Tennessee. She was 98 years…
The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame inductees for 2013 have been named. In seven categories, they are Lester Flatt (songwriter),…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
