A signature music and community event is expanding. The Southern Strings Festival will return to Bruce’s Field for two nights of music under the stars. This year's festival will be Oct. 2 and 3, and ...

IONIA COUNTY, MI — Two weeks after confirming his return home for two dates in August, Billy Strings has unveiled plans for the inaugural “Ionia Freak Fair.” Strings, raised in nearby Muir, will take ...

Once a symbol of celebration during Jamghat and other festivals, kite flying has now become a deadly hazard on the city streets due to the growing use of the banned razor-sharp nylon or plastic kite ...

If you’ve followed Strings’ shows, you know the script is that there is no script. Sets are fluid, genre‑bending, and often stretch past the three‑hour mark with a short intermission. Strings balances ...

XAVIER STRINGS and their five-piece band set The Falls at Westmall on fire two weekends ago with performances that drew a full house and had people cheering and clapping from the balconies. No one ...

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn’t sick leading up to ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

GRAND RAPIDS — For those uninitiated in the bluegrass universe of Billy Strings, his stratospheric success in a genre once relegated to a cubbyhole of Appalachian music and back-porch pickin’ seems ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Grammy Award-winning musician will perform in downtown Louisville later this year. Billy Strings will play at the KFC Yum! Center on Dec. 5-6 as part of a headline tour.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Ionia County-bred bluegrass star Billy Strings paid a special visit to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Tuesday. The hospital posted on its social media Wednesday that Strings, whose ...