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Nancy Cardwell just sent along another batch of photos from the July 14 Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman concert in Nashville where she interviewed Doyle Lawson about the legacy of Bill Monroe. The show featured performances by Sierra Hull & Highway 111, Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. All four [...]
This interview with Doyle Lawson at the July 14 edition of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman was conducted by Nancy Cardwell. If Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass was looking down from heaven last Thursday night, July 14 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, he would have been tickled. Remember the steely glint in [...]
CMT has released a web video of Sierra Hull performing a cover of Someone Like You, written and originally recorded by British pop songstress Adele. In addition to her road band, Highway 111, Sierra is accompanied by Ron Block, Justin Moses, and Caleb Gilbreath. She is also seen playing the new octave mandolin she just [...]
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 the $3000 he estimates he will need to finish up his upcoming solo album. [...]
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 early March, and Sierra has been actively touring since she finished her course work [...]
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 measure. The comparison of her to Alison Kraus is unavoidable, but she's a delight, [...]
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 his students, which this year features Sierra Hull in her final Berklee concert before [...]
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 Kathy Mattea in 1995. All Berklee students have to perform in such a recital [...]
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 of the many mandolin students who are currently studying at the school. Berklee has [...]
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 this semester. Simos is an Assistant professor in the Berklee Songwriting department, whose name should [...]
