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Billy Strings

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BusinessSeptember 18

Billy Strings plays his first full-band set since breaking his leg on Austin City Limits
The Season 52 hour was taped on 2 July and runs seven songs, ending in a Hendrix quote.
ReleasesSeptember 17

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard tease a bluegrass record with a guest
Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker told triple j the project is unfinished, and JamBase reads the unnamed guest as Billy Strings.
ReleasesSeptember 2

Bela Fleck sets a Ryman live album with Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle
Twenty tracks from a January 2022 Nashville concert, out October 16, with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Sierra Hull also on the stage.
ReleasesSeptember 1

Billy Strings releases So Much For Goodbyes, an album written around his mother's death
Sixteen tracks move between traditional bluegrass, gospel and songs with drums and steel, closing with an instrumental named Debra's Waltz.
ReleasesAugust 31

Billy Strings shreds Open Face Surgery with the death metal band Cryptopsy
The bluegrass guitarist sat in at both Michigan shows, one of them at his own Ionia Freak Fair.
FestivalsAugust 31

Billy Strings joins Cryptopsy onstage at his own Ionia Freak Fair festival
The bluegrass player booked a metal stage at his hometown event in Michigan and turned up on it himself.
ToursAugust 31

Billy Strings plays the album So Much For Goodbyes in full at Ionia Freak Fair
Sixteen tracks in order, a metal tent booked alongside the bluegrass stage, and his father Terry Barber singing lead on two songs.
ToursAugust 28

Billy Strings books a 2027 winter tour ending with a night at the Ryman
Ten February shows across three cities, with Asheville taking five of them.
ReleasesAugust 28

Billy Strings and Vince Herman sit in with the band Greensky Bluegrass
A Grand Rapids pre-party for the Ionia Freak Fair produced a first-ever Dolly Parton cover, two days after her death.
BusinessAugust 9

Bluegrass musician Billy Strings wears a helmet on stage after being hit by an object
He questioned coming back to the venue after a fan threw a lighter at him, per NME.
ReleasesAugust 3

Billy Strings sits in with a bar band on a West Virginia night off
He joined the John Inghram Band on stage and, by accounts from the room, kept going for hours.

Billy Strings plays his first full-band set since breaking his leg on Austin City Limits

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard tease a bluegrass record with a guest

Bela Fleck sets a Ryman live album with Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle

Billy Strings releases So Much For Goodbyes, an album written around his mother's death

Billy Strings shreds Open Face Surgery with the death metal band Cryptopsy

Billy Strings joins Cryptopsy onstage at his own Ionia Freak Fair festival

Billy Strings plays the album So Much For Goodbyes in full at Ionia Freak Fair

Billy Strings books a 2027 winter tour ending with a night at the Ryman

Billy Strings and Vince Herman sit in with the band Greensky Bluegrass

Bluegrass musician Billy Strings wears a helmet on stage after being hit by an object

Billy Strings sits in with a bar band on a West Virginia night off

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