{"id":597304,"date":"2026-04-21T09:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:27:20","slug":"billy-strings-postpones-some-tour-dates-after-breaking-leg-during-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597304\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Strings postpones some tour dates after breaking leg during show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I heard it snap over the screaming crowd,&#8221; said the musician, who underwent surgery after the skateboarding accident backstage.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Musician Billy Strings has postponed some tour dates after breaking his leg in a skateboarding crash during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">show <\/a>Saturday night in Charlotteville, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, can\u2019t say y\u2019all didn\u2019t warn me about screwing around on my skateboard!!&#8221; he said in an Instagram post announcing the postponement of shows in Charleston, West Virginia, and Fishers, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>The neo-bluegrass musician said in the post that the accident happened after he walked off stage before the encore, when he tried to do a skateboarding trick he has &#8220;done a million times.&#8221; He said he landed awkwardly and broke his leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard it snap over the screaming crowd!!&#8221; he said. &#8220;Sounded like a damn 2&#215;4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He underwent surgery where screws were put into his leg and has been in the hospital for the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had every intention of carrying on with the tour,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really don\u2019t want to let anybody down, but after some long talks with these doctors, my friends, band and colleagues, my wife etc&#8230;. I should probably let this thing heal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His April 22 show in Charleston, West Virginia, will be rescheduled for Aug. 4. His shows in Fishers, Indiana, on April 24-26 will be rescheduled for Aug. 6-8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the original dates will be honored for the rescheduled shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like such an idiot. But what are ya gonna do , ya know? At least I didn\u2019t hit my head or break my wrist or something,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Again, I\u2019m really sorry and I promise I will make it up to you. See you this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I heard it snap over the screaming crowd,&#8221; said the musician, who underwent surgery after the skateboarding accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-597304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}