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Photos: Billy Strings mystifies and delights at Target Center

by Tony Nelson

August 11, 2025

Billy Strings performing in concert at Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.
Billy Strings performing in concert at Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Tony Nelson for MPR

Michigan new-wave bluegrass and Americana singer/guitarist Billy Strings brought his summer tour to Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, Aug. 9. The show featured two sets of his adventurous and virtuosic playing.

Setlist (via setlist.fm)

Set 1:

Taking Water (>)

Running the Route (>)

Hollow Heart

Hellbender

Happy Hollow

Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan cover) (>)

All Fall Down (John Hartford cover)

Be Your Man

Long Forgotten Dream

I'm One of Those

Turmoil & Tinfoil

Set 2:

Nashville Blues (The Doc Watson Family cover)

Catch & Release

Am I Born To Die? (Charles Wesley cover)

Home

My Alice

Pretty Daughter (Danny Barnes cover)

Psycho (Eddie Noack cover)

Red Daisy (>)

On the Line (>)

Train 45 ([traditional] cover)

Summertime (George Gershwin cover) (>)

Ride Me High (J.J. Cale cover) (>)

Hide and Seek

Photos: Billy Strings mystifies and delights at Target Center