Sierra Hull

  • Clay Hess on Kickstarter

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    Clay Hess, guitarist and vocalist with Sierra Hull & Highway 111, is the latest bluegrass artist to take to Kickstarter for crowdsourcing of his new project, Rain. In this case, Clay is looking for his fans and friends to help raise

  • Sierra Hull is London bound

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    Sierra Hull is coming over to the UK to play a couple of showcase dates to help launch the UK release of her new album, Daybreak (Rounder 0658), due to become available in July. The record hit in the US in

  • The Soggy Bottom Fest

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    Greetings from a beautiful, but SOGGY DelFest. What a great afternoon we've had.  Sierra Hull and Highway 111 treated us to songs from their recent release and a threw in a couple of oldies and a few gospel number for good

  • Mandolin Mashup 2011 video

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    Well... it looks like I was wrong last week about there being no archived copy of the 2011 Mandolin Mashup video from the Berklee College of Music. Berklee mandolin instructor John McGann organizes this show each Spring as a showcase for

  • Sierra rocks it at Berklee

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    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

  • Mandolin Mashup at Berklee – and online

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    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

  • Songwriting analysis from Mark Simos

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    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

  • Sierra Hull – Daybreak

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    Today (3/8) is the official release date for Daybreak, Sierra Hull's second album for Rounder Records. Much has been said, here on Bluegrass Today and elsewhere, about this uniquely talented young lady. At 19 years old, she puts many experienced mandolin

  • Sierra Hull – Easy Come, Easy Go

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    The debut video from Sierra Hull's new Daybreak CD is running now at CMT.com. The song is Easy Come, Easy Go written by Kevin McLung, who wrote the title track for her Secrets CD a few years back. The song features