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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.
The Music Link has announced their latest instrument, a solid wood “F-style” mandolin, designed in collaboration with Greg Rich, who was…
Brad Laird at MandoUniversity.com has just published two new books for mandolinists. The first book is titled The Mandolin Handbook –…
This one probably should have been filed under celebrity gossip or something, but we don’t have a category for that. Anyway,…
When AcuTab’s book of Herschel Sizemore mandolin transcriptions went out of print earlier this year, the company had no plans for…
Our friends at Mandolin Cafe have made the audio from the 2006 LoarFest West panel discussions available on their site. Participants…
We shared the news last month about Rigel mandolins going out of business – sad news for devotees of their unorthodox…
The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting two Monroe-Style Mandolin Camps this month. The first camp runs September 8-10 and the…
Mandolin Cafe is reporting that Rigel Mandolins has ceased production and is going out of business. Rigel was noted for unorthodox…
Mel Bay has just released to DVD Joe Carr’s Super Mandolin Picking Techniques. This was previously only available on VHS. The…
We had posted earlier about LoarFest West, a mandolin symposium held in conjunction with the SuperGrass festival in Bakersfield, CA the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
