Billy Strings may be the most controversial name in bluegrass, playing blazing leads on acoustic and distorted electric guitar, an instrument frowned upon by the genre’s hardcore traditionalists. But ...

An acoustic guitar is usually a staple of a mellow show, but Billy Strings shredded bluegrass tunes into his acoustic Saturday night with the hair-flipping energy of a rock star. Just looking at the ...

PITTSBURGH ― Just when you think he can't strum his guitar any faster, Billy Strings digs deeper within and finds an even faster gear. Strings' supersonic yet smooth shredding electrified Tuesday's ...

If you’ve never seen or heard Billy Strings and his band, you might initially mistake them for a traditional bluegrass unit. The instruments are what you’d expect—banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass and ...

Strings and his Michigan jam band show off their mastery of classical American rural music – with a hard-rock twist There is a certain amount of tie-dye in the crowd at the Forum, and – very unusually ...

In his mid-teens, Billy Strings was the lead guitarist in a Grand Rapids, Michigan, prog-rock band called A Day of Moments. He was a high school dropout and hadn’t touched an acoustic guitar in years.

Michigan native Billy Strings performed at Pine Knob Music Theatre Friday night with an electric performance as part of his 2023 spring tour. Hot off a two-night stand in Cleveland, String's sold-out ...

DARLINGTON, S.C. (WMBF) - Bluegrass music is making a huge comeback in the Palmetto State. “It’s America’s music. It’s part of a roots music,” said Stan Thompson, the Vice President of the ...

The biggest story of this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association award show wasn’t that Billy Strings won his third consecutive Entertainer of the Year honor. Nor was it that Sierra Hull ...

The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, based in Nashville, presented its International Band ...