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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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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Indoor or outdoor, see single day events and concert series here.
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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.
Luke McKnight is the son of Gwen McReynolds, the oldest of Jesse’s four children. He has worked as part of the…
Lloyd Loar’s is a name spoken in hushed and reverential tones when serious students of fretted instruments get together to discuss…
Music instruction publisher Mel Bay recently re-released one of their mainstay titles, Mel Bay’s Complete Mandolin Method. Originally released in book…
I’ve had occasion this week to speak with both Alan Bibey and Wayne Benson, two of the premier mandolinists playing bluegrass…
Washburn has announced the release of two new mandolin models, both designed to mimic the appearance of gently worn vintage instruments….
We’ve written often about Berklee College Of Music in Boston and their recent embrace of the banjo and mandolin as principal…
When a 16 year old bluegrass prodigy enlists some of the biggest names in the business to help record her debut…
Gibson has been posting free instructional videos on their web site of late. Most of them have reflected the larger size…
Our friend Laura Leder from Cool Mandolin Company emailed recently to ask us to remind students of bluegrass and old time…
Most of us can remember, and will tell the story with enthusiasm, how we became interested in bluegrass music. Many of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
