Billy Strings wrapped up a West Coast leg with Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Festival on Sunday at The Gorge Amphitheatre, and followed it up with the announcement of two new concert dates in Oregon and Washington, plus a set at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI.
After sitting in with Bob Dylan earlier in the week, Strings closed out his term on Willie’s Outlaw Fest with a tight, 17-song, 75-minute single-set show at The Gorge in Quincy, WA. Among the highlights were a classic pairing of the tender “In the Morning Light” and Widespread Panic‘s chaotic “All Time Low”, the first “Otto Wood the Bandit” since 2023, and a Dos Billys “Dos Banjos” segment with Strings on clawhammer alongside Billy Failing.
Billy Strings — Outlaw Music Festival — Washington Run Recap
With Outlaw Fest behind him, Strings is looking ahead to his headlining tour set to begin this coming weekend with a two-night hometown(-ish) run in Grand Rapids, MI (5/30, 5/31). Even with a whole spring and summer tour ahead of him, Strings tacked on two additional shows in Everett, WA (8/22) and Eugene, OR (8/23), plus a set at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Michigan on June 19th.
“This is the first bluegrass festival I ever attended and it changed my whole life!!” Strings wrote in the festival announcement.
An artist pre-sale for the new Billy Strings Pacific Northwest shows will begin Wednesday, May 28th at 10 a.m. PT, followed by the general on-sale on Friday, May 30th at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets for the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival are on sale here. Find tickets and a full list of tour dates here.
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Setlist: Billy Strings | The Gorge Amphitheatre | Quincy, WA | 5/25/25
Set: Libby Phillips Rag > Blues Stay Away From Me (Delmore Brothers), This Old World, Leadfoot [1], In The Morning Light > All Time Low (Widespread Panic) > John Deere Tractor (Lawrence Hammond), Ice Bridges, Otto Wood The Bandit (Walter Smith) [2] [3], Dos Banjos [4], This Heart Of Mine (New Grass Revival) > Dealing Despair, Watch It Fall, Living Like An Animal > The Cuckoo (Traditional) > New Country Blues (Emmitt-Nershi Band), The Beginning of the End
[1] Billy Strings on his Masterton ML-1: Missing Link Béla Fleck Baritone Banjo & Billy Failing on Guitar
[2] Billy Strings solo
[3] Last Time Played 2023-03-03 | 180 show gap
[4] Dos Billys (Billy Strings on clawhammer banjo, Billy Failing on banjo)
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