Michigan musicians Billy Strings & Don Julin play traditional American string band music with energy levels usually associated with extreme sports. A typical set includes haunting Appalachian songs, righteous gospel standards, and blazing bluegrass instrumentals. Honoring the musical traditions of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Jimmy Martin, Billy Strings & Don Julin will take you back to that high lonesome sound of yesterday’s bluegrass, but everything is kicked up a notch, and they offer something new and extremely exciting in Michigan bluegrass. They promise: "This is your grandaddy’s bluegrass delivered with a pedal-to-the-metal intensity of a moonshine runner." Billy & Don strutted their considerable stuff on the Friday-night bill at the 2015 Ann Arbor Folk Festival.