One thing you can’t say about Billy Strings after he and his stellar backing band—along with Friday’s most special guest, his own father, Terry Barber—finished an amazing two sold-out nights of top-shelf, high-octane bluegrass at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI is that he ever does anything halfway.
In the last week alone, Strings left his own sold-out Renewal festival before his headlining set after earlier in the day announcing a slew of winter tour dates and doing a wide open Q+A to fly home and be by his wife Ally’s side as she went into labor. That monumental, life-changing series of events would be enough to exhaust almost anyone but the seemingly inexhaustible fretboard firebrand, Billy Strings.
With the aid of his incredible team, led by manager Bill Orner, in conjunction with the Renewal’s promoters, Bonfire Entertainment and their leader Scotty Stoughton, Strings managed to offer full refunds to all attendees to make up for his unexpected absence. This meaning gesture was quickly pushed through even though Strings’ band, alongside a host of his fellow musicians including Molly Tuttle and fellow flat picking guitarist Larry Keel, made sure the show went on after Strings’ sudden departure…