Lansing State Journal

For many Ionia residents, Billy Strings' Freak Fair is a homecoming

IONIA — Ionia artist Kelly Arens has known Billy Strings a long time. Long enough to know him as William Apostol, a young man wandering the streets of Ionia with his friends. “He would get into ...
Billboard

Billy Strings’ ‘So Much for Goodbyes’: All 16 Tracks Ranked

The acclaimed bluegrass artist's latest album is a profound meditation on grief inspired by the recent death of his mother. By Eric Renner Brown Over the last few years, virtuosic bluegrass player ...
The Guardian

Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a ...
Lansing State Journal

Billy Strings’ Ionia Freak Fair is Aug. 28-29. What to know if you go

Billy Strings will headline the sold-out Ionia Freak Fair this weekend, Aug. 28-29, at the same time his fifth studio album, "So Much for Goodbyes," is officially released. Tickets for both days of ...
Jambands

Billy Strings Shares New Song: “10,000 Miles From a Friend”

Billy Strings has shared a new song “10,000 Miles From a Friend,” the latest offering from his forthcoming studio album, So Much for Goodbyes. The 16-track LP, which is slated for release on Friday, ...
earth

Light travels from the Sun to Earth in just eight minutes, but the journey from the Sun’s core to its surface can take up to 500,000 years

The sunlight reaching Earth from the Sun’s visible surface crosses space in about 8 minutes. Before that, however, the radiant energy that ultimately emerges as sunlight can spend an extraordinarily ...