“I heard it snap over the screaming crowd!!”

Billy Strings postpones tour dates after breaking his leg in ‘dumb ass’ skateboarding accident backstage

"I heard it snap over the screaming crowd!!"

By Ryan Coleman

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April 20, 2026 8:12 p.m. ET

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Billy Strings performing in Los Angeles in 2025, and in the hospital in 2026. Credit:

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- Bluegrass musician Billy Strings has postponed several tour dates after a skateboarding accident.

- "I grabbed my board and tried to do a trick I've done a million times (back 180) and landed awkwardly and broke my leg," Strings wrote in a Monday Instagram post.

- Four April shows spread between West Virginia and Indiana have been pushed back to August.

Billy Strings fans of West Virginia and Indiana — blame it on the skateboard.

The Grammy-winning Bluegrass musician has been forced to postpone several dates in his ongoing national tour due to a recent, skateboard-induced injury.

"Well, can't say y'all didn't warn me about screwing around on my skateboard!!" Strings wrote in a Monday Instagram post, over a carousel of photos depicting him laid up in a hospital bed alongside several x-ray scans of a broken bone.

"Saturday night I walked off stage right before the encore I was all zazzed up from a really fun show. I grabbed my board and tried to do a trick I've done a million times (back 180) and landed awkwardly and broke my leg," he wrote. "I heard it snap over the screaming crowd!! Sounded like a damn 2x4."

Strings described the "interesting couple days" that followed the injury backstage at his show in Charlottesville, Va. at the John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday as involving "the most extreme pain and crazy ketamine trips and operations."

The "Dust in a Baggie" singer praised his care team at the UVA Health University Medical Center in Charlottesville who "screwed me all back together" as "absolute angels on Earth."

Though Strings shared his original intention to carry on with the tour, injury and all, "after some long talks with these doctors, my friends, band and colleagues, my wife etc. I should probably let this thing heal... Plus I'm all messed up on pain killers and stuff. It's a dumb ass mistake and it's all my fault .. I feel like such an idiot. But what are ya gonna do, ya know?"

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Strings' April 22 show at the Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, W.V. and three dates from April 24-26 at the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Ind. have now been postponed to Aug. 4 and Aug. 6-8, respectively.****"Your tickets will still be good for the new dates," Strings wrote in closing. "Again, I'm really sorry and I promise I will make it up to you. See you this summer."

Billy Strings performs in Minneapolis in 2025.

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Strings' first album, 2017's *Turmoil & Tinfoil*, catapulted him to fame, even beyond the bluegrass community that he'd been rising through for years.

His following three albums, *Home*, *Renewal*, and *Highway Prayers*, along with the collaborative album *Me/And/Dad *with his stepfather, Terry Barber, and the live album *Live Vol. 1*, were all nominated for Best Bluegrass Album at the Grammy Awards. *Home*, *Highway Prayers*, and *Live Vol. 1* all took home the award.

Strings will play his next sold-out show at the Berglund Center in Roanoke, Va. on July 14.

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