Billy Strings, who plays Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida on April 9, 2025. Credit: Photo by Yvonne Gougelet

After winning Best Bluegrass Album at the Grammys last February, Billy Strings returns to Tampa for one just one night of virtuoustic time-traveling across the genre’s many eras.

This gig celebrates the 32-year-old’s latest album, Highway Prayers, an expansion of Strings’ twangy palette, which debuted at no. 1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart last fall.

Tickets to see Billy Strings play Yuengling Center in Tampa on Wednesday, April 9 are still available and start at $39.50.

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This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...