A holly jolly bluegrass Christmas. Billy Strings has wrapped up his tours for the year, rounding out his 2025 winter tour with some stellar shows in Texas. After laying it down in Austin’s Moody Arena ...
Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – A Grammy Award-winning artist is bringing his latest tour to the Mountain State. Bluegrass artist Billy Strings will be at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center on ...
Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Billy Strings turned in two performances over the weekend. The concerts arrived after the Michigan-bred guitarist ignited the Universal Monsters theme during his Halloween show at the CFG Bank Arena ...
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Palace Theatre, 19 Clinton Ave., Albany. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $23-$73. 800-745-3000 or palacealbany.org. Performing Holst’s “The Planets” and the world premiere of Bobby Ge’s ...
For the second year in a row, Billy Strings transformed Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena into his own personal haunted house. The bluegrass phenom brought his guest-laden multi-day extravaganza to Charm ...
It’s a very effective costume. By Vanessa Friedman The author has covered political image-making and its influences since Bush v. Gore, including Volodymyr Zelensky and his olive green T-shirt and the ...
On Friday evening, Billy Strings arrived at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the second-to-last appearance on his European Fall Tour. The concert also marked a debut: the first time Strings, Billy ...
There are no off days for Cryptopsy. The Canadian death-metal band is on a night off just outside of Baltimore when Westword rings, but instead of indulging in the local fare of soft-shell crab and ...
Known for years as one of the most underrated artists not just in the bluegrass scene but in music in general, it seems as if Billy Strings has finally gotten the recognition he most certainly ...
A dozen years ago this summer, I wrote one of the more impactful columns of my life. Not that it was necessarily impactful on the world — though it is something I still get asked about — but it ...