Billy Strings Announces Spring 2019 Tour Dates

Billy Strings is has to announced several tour stops for Spring, 2019. In addition to a heavy touring schedule, Billy has added stops across the country that have him appearing at several iconic festivals and venues along the way.

New additions include Bluegrass Bender, Sweetwater 420 Fest, Aiken Bluegrass Festival, DelFest, Dark Star Jubilee, Roosterwalk, Camp Out For The Cause, Camp Greensky, and many more including a co-bill performance at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville w/ Steep Canyon Rangers.

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Billy Strings Spring 2019 Tour:

4/11-14 Las Vegas, NV - Bluegrass Bender

4/18 Asheville, NC - Salvage Station

4/19 Atlanta, GA - 420 Sweetwater Festival

4/20 20 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

5/1 New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's *

5/3 Houston, TX - Last Concert Cafe

5/4 Austin, TX - Mohawk

5/10-11 Aiken, SC - Aiken Bluegrass Festival

5/16 Martinsville, VA - Rives Theatre

5/17 Richmond, VA - Dominion RiverRock

5/23-24 Cumberland, MD - DelFest

5/25 Thornville, OH - Dark Star Jubilee

5/26 Martinsville, VA - Roosterwalk

5/31 Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden **

6/1 Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theater

6/2 Buena Vista, CO - Camp Out For The Cause

6/6 Wellston, MI - Camp Greensky

6/8 Haugan, MT - Silver Cloud Campout

6/11 Livingston, MT - Pine Creek Lodge

6/15 Eau Claire, WI - Blue Ox Music Festival

6/20 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium ***

6/22 Bend, OR - 4 Peaks Music Festival

*with Cedric Burnside

** supporting Bela Fleck & the Flecktones

*** with Steep Canyon Rangers

ABOUT:

Billy Strings plays hard and he lives hard, picking so fast and intensely that he's known to break multiple strings per song, and basing the songs he writes on the hard lives he grew up around in the abandoned rural communities of America. His new album, Turmoil & Tinfoil, taps into a deep vein of psychedelia in Americana, referencing everything from the Dead to Sturgill Simpson, but all underlaid by Billy's undeniable virtuosity and his knowledge of the roots of American music. He's one of the most beloved young bluegrass guitarists today within the bluegrass community, and his front porch in East Nashville is constantly filled up with Nashville's best roots musicians just picking up a storm.

The tricky part of making the new album, Turmoil & Tinfoil, was translating BillyStrings' incendiary live show into the studio. Returning to his home state of Michigan, Billy enlisted acoustic roots wizard Glenn Brown (Greensky Bluegrass) as producer, and centered the music around his new band, featuring Drew Matulich on mandolin with banjo prodigy Billy Failing and much-loved Nashville bassist Brad Tucker. Rich with special guests, Turmoil & Tinfoil shows off Billy's East Nashville community of picking friends, among them Miss Tess, Molly Tuttle, John Mailander, Shad Cobb and Peter Madcat Ruth. Of special note is a virtuosic duet between Billy and bluegrass guitarist Bryan Sutton on "Salty Sheep" that shows the speed, precision, and creative craftsmanship of bluegrass when it's done right.

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