Even some major label acts can’t demand that kind of capacity. But he’s also booked not one, but two nights at the Bridgestone Arena across the street right in the heart of mainstream country’s epicenter on February 24th and 25th. He’ll be playing an intimate show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on February 26th like he’s done many times before. This week Billy Strings announced a slew of new dates for 2023. We’ve seen independent country artists like Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers conjoin to play arenas (before the pandemic cut it short), but who knows if this could be done today. Just let that sink in for a moment: this is Bill Monroe’s music that is now becoming so resonant among such a wide swath of the population, they have to book it in 14,000+ capacity venues, and in some cases, for multiple nights in a row just to satisfy demand. But now the appeal for Billy Strings has reached critical mass, and he will be officially taking bluegrass music to the arena level in 2023. But you were warned, and had your chances for years to see Billy Strings in local watering holes, clubs downtown, and historic theaters across the country. It was bound to happen, and you can bellyache all you want about not being able to see one of your favorite artists in a more intimate venue.
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