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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Despite its name, the Charm City Bluegrass Festival will expand its scope to include the entire spectrum of string-band music when it returns to Druid Hill Park this Saturday. The all-day, four-stage ...

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 ...

Hopping off the tailgate of his Sprinter touring van, Billy Strings readies himself for a rollicking set at the inaugural Railbird festival in Lexington, Kentucky. The six-string virtuoso grabs his ...

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 ...