Grammy-winning bluegrass musician Billy Strings announced on stage last night that his mother, Debra Apostol, had died and asked the crowd to cheer as loud as they could in her honor.
The 32-year-old singer-songwriter, whose real name is William Lee Apostol, was performing in Lexington, Kentucky. During his set, he revealed that his mother had passed just hours after his hometown show in Lansing, Michigan, at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival the previous night, Thursday, June 19.
As People reports, Strings told the audience: “After our set we drove through the night and I finally fell asleep when we got parked here in Lexington, probably about 5:40 this morning or so. I might have got three hours of sleep and I was in a deep sleep…