Sierra Hull

  • Billy premier in Nashville October 2

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    We have posted a number of times this year about the movie, Billy: The Early Years, a bio pic dramatization of the childhood and youth of celebrated evangelist Billy Graham. The bluegrass connection comes in the fact that young mandolin/vocal

  • Sierra Hull in Japan

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    As we mentioned last month, 16 year old mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull is in the middle of a whirlwind tour of Japan. She has just completed the first leg, performing with a group of young bluegrass all-starts, and is now touring

  • In the studio

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    Your blog authors have been busy in the studio all week working on a couple of new AcuTab projects that were mentioned earlier. I managed to snap a couple of photos of the action. I thought I'd share them here for

  • New DVDs due from AcuTab

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    AcuTab Publications has news of several new bluegrass instructional DVDs due during the summer and fall of 2008. Just completed shooting is a fiddle project with Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve which will go into editing shortly. Jim covered a number

  • US bluegrass youth heading to Japan

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    Every summer, the town of Kawaguchi in Japan hosts an International Exchange program for young musicians. The young players stay with host Japanese families and are exposed to Japanese culture during their visit, which culminates in the annual Lilia festival

  • Sarah Jarosz signs with Sugar Hill

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    Much of the bluegrass and acoustic music world has been buzzing this spring about Secrets, the debut CD from young phenom Sierra Hull - and rightly so. Just as folks in the business had been talking about Sierra for several

  • Bluegrass at CMA Fan Fair

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    There will be some bluegrass offered during this week's big CMA Music Festival and Fan Fair in Nashville. Though the event officially begins on Thursday (6/5) and runs through Sunday (6/8), there is a kickoff concert tonight (6/4) at 10:00 p.m.

  • Sierra Hull on the set

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    How many of us would look favorably on the notion of returning to high school after having reached adulthood. Not many, I would guess. For most of us, our teen aged years were busy, confusing and often highly-stressful times. For one

  • Sierra Hull Video Bio

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    Our friend Craig Havighurst has posted a YouTube video bio of Sierra Hull. Craig produced the video for Rounder Records to coincide with the release, yesterday, of Sierra's new CD, Secrets. We got to produce this video bio of Sierra that

  • Ron Block on Sierra Hull

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    Today (5/6) marks the official release of Secrets, Sierra Hull's debut on Rounder. This sixteen year old wunderkind has been wowing audiences for at least the past six years, sitting in with leading artists like Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Ricky