Prepare for some face melting. The “Dust in a Baggie” singer broke out in a big way commercially in 2024 with the release of Highway Prayers. Not only did the record top seven different Billboard ...

Before he became one of the biggest stars in bluegrass and country music, Billy Strings grew up in Muir, a small community located between Lansing and Grand Rapids. The Grammy Award-winning artist is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — West Michigan’s Billy Strings won a third Grammy Award on Sunday night. The Muir native took home Best Bluegrass Album for “Highway Prayers,” which was released in ...

Ionia County native Billy Strings netted his third Grammy win in six years on Sunday, Feb. 1, reeling in “Best Bluegrass Album” yet again. Strings, born William Apostol, earned the honors at the 68th ...

Grammy-winning bluegrass sensation Billy Strings teased a possible return to his Ionia County roots with a cryptic social media post Tuesday, Jan. 13. In the post, shared on Facebook and Instagram, ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...

Learning to play guitar as a young boy growing up in Michigan, Billy Strings never saw it as a viable career path. Instead, he assumed he’d eventually “wither away in prison” or end up a drug addict.

Billy Strings is getting real about how having a son has changed the way he views music. Last year, Billy Strings and his wife welcomed a baby boy into the world. After a long labor, Strings was happy ...

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...