It doesn't get much better than a crossover collaboration like this. A legendary southern rock and jam band from Athens, GA, Widespread Panic just capped off a legendary three-night run leading up to ...

Bluegrass music is one of those music genres that hasn’t really changed much through the years. And why would it change? Its roots are deep in Appalachian culture, and it has endured the test of time ...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Billy Strings has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music ...

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 ...

These kids. They grow up so fast. Wasn’t it just yesterday that Billy Strings, already the talk of the new generation bluegrass world, was a tearing it up on regular basis at The Burl? Among his ...

When Billy Strings, neé William Apostol, decided to call his 2019 album Home, he wasn't being metaphorical: Music is a very real home for the flat-picking virtuoso and singer-songwriter, dating all ...

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.

A new wave of talent, led by Strings, Molly Tuttle, Zach Top and others, are redefining a once-niche genre for a whole generation. By Steve Knopper Susto frontman Justin Osborne did not record ...

Nominees for the 2022 Bluegrass Music Awards include red-hot newcomers alongside tried-and-true lifetime pickers. The 2022 Bluegrass Music Awards take place Sept. 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Billy Strings was born into music, like, literally. It was October 1992 in Lansing, Mich., and his mom, Debbie, was nine months pregnant. BILLY STRINGS: It was my grandpa's birthday party, and ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with bluegrass musician Billy Strings and his dad who taught him how to play guitar, Terry Barber, about their new album, "Me/And/Dad." Billy Strings was born into music, like, ...