Berklee

Speaking of Sierra Hull and Berklee... Here's a video of her helping out a fellow student, Caleb Gilbreath, on his senior recital. Caleb's a drummer, and brought Sierra along to sing Gillian Welch and David Rawlings' 455 Rocket, a hit for

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Mandolin Mashup 5! Tonight (May 4) at 8:15 p.m., Berklee College of Music mandolin instructor John McGann will host a concert at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston to celebrate the skill and artistry

In the first part of our interview with Sierra Hull earlier this month, she discussed her current studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. One instructor she mentioned was Mark Simos, with whom she is studying lyric writing

Have we overdone the Sierra Hull coverage this past few weeks? I hope not, because here is one more piece of Hull news. To help celebrate her new CD, Daybreak, released on Rounder this past Tuesday, Sierra gets to perform tonight

The Berklee College of Music in Boston has just announced an exciting new program for banjo players enrolled in their Traditional String principal. Only in the past few years have banjo and mandolin players been accepted at Berklee, at least officially.

David Hollender, professor at Berklee College of Music, is set to publish Beyond Bluegrass Banjo, a new book of exercises and improvisational explorations for banjo students at Berklee - or any other banjo player who wants to branch out from

The Berklee College of Music in Boston has announced a new Summer String Program to be held next year with Mark O'Connor. It will be held June 27 through July 1, 2011 immediately following the Mark O'Connor String Camp on

Virtuosic young fiddler Alex Hargreaves has been named the recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. This is a competitive award, named in honor of the founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and

Sierra Hull is having an eventful freshman year in college. She entered the Berklee College of Music last fall with the promise and pressure that comes with Berklee's prestigious Presidential Scholarship, and found herself juggling the arduous first year class load

Northern Lights has been the premier progressive bluegrass band in northeastern Massachusetts for the past 35 years. Other than a brief hiatus from 1977-1982, the band has been the home for adventurous string musicians in the Boston area, often including