Walter Tunis
Contributing Music Columnist at Lexington Herald-Leader
Articles
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1 week ago |
kentucky.com | Walter Tunis
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroomBilly Strings honored his late mother during an introspective Rupp Arena concert. The setlist blended original songs with gospel, bluegrass, and rock covers. Strings balanced emotional tribute with musical improvisation and genre fusion. For all the bragging rights he has earned by selling out Rupp Arena on two consecutive nights two years in a row, Billy Strings took the stage Friday evening in remarkably unceremonious fashion.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Walter Tunis
10 hours agoBilly Strings is grieving the death of his mother, Debra Apostal. The Grammy-winning bluegrass musician, 32, announced during a performance in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, June 20, that his mom died just hours after his hometown show in Lansing, Michigan, at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival on …
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Walter Tunis
For all the bragging rights he has earned by selling out Rupp Arena on two consecutive nights two years in a row, Billy Strings took the stage Friday evening in remarkably unceremonious fashion. But there was a reason for that.
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1 week ago |
kentucky.com | Walter Tunis
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroomBilly Strings returns to Rupp Arena June 20-21 for two sold-out shows. Strings blends traditional bluegrass with rock and jam band influences live. Young fans embrace bluegrass roots through Strings’ genre-spanning sets.
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2 weeks ago |
kentucky.com | Walter Tunis
When Charlie Musselwhite arrived in Chicago during the early 1960s, his mind wasn’t on the blues music that would soon became a lifelong artistic calling. It was on work. Any work. “All Chicago was to me was a big city way up north that had a lot of factory jobs,” said the longstanding harmonica stylist, guitarist and bandleader. “That’s 100% of all I knew about Chicago. Lucky for me, the first job I got was as a driver for an exterminator. I drove him all over town.
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