The guitar phenom was named Entertainer of the Year for the fifth time in six years at the annual International Bluegrass ...

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The guitar phenom was named Entertainer of the Year for the fifth time in six years at the annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards in Chattanooga ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association Awards were held Oct. 22 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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 ...

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 ...

Watching guitarist Billy Strings onstage is akin to observing a hummingbird in its natural state. Strings’ fingers zoom up and down the fretboard of his acoustic in an intricate and calculated frenzy.

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.

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 ...

Last evening. the 37th annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards took place at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in ...

Even as a toddler, Billy Strings seemed to understand bluegrass. "When he was in his highchair, and I had a friend over and we were playing one day, I looked over and he's right in rhythm with his ...

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, ...