The music drifted down from Appalachia, from the front porches of English and Scottish immigrants who plucked and strummed the string instruments of their homelands. Along the way, someone added ...

DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. An acoustic guitar is usually a staple of a mellow show, but Billy Strings shredded ...

The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts had a night filled with rhythm and harmony from bluegrass musician Billy Strings and folk trio I’m With Her. The stage was set with a wide array of string ...

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 ...

The May Valley City Bluegrass Jam Sessions are scheduled for Saturday, May 9 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Vault Coffee ...

The landscape of bluegrass flatpicking is shifting under the weight of two modern giants: Billy Strings and B\u00e9la Fleck. With Strings\u2019 2026 tour underway and recent analyses of his ...

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.

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 ...

A crowd started gathering outside the doors to Banquet Halls E and H on Tuesday, waiting for doors to open about an hour before Billy Strings was scheduled to give the International Bluegrass Music ...