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A few hours before Sierra Hull was to perform on the world famous Grand Ole Opry she was standing on the stage at the 44th Annual Smithville Fiddlers' Jamboree and Crafts Festival July 4. She was chosen as the second recipient of the Blue Blaze award for actively cultivating a love of bluegrass music. The [...]
Shelly Swanger was on hand at ROMP 2015, and just sent us these images from the festival.
To help promote their show this week as a part of Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman in Nashville, Sierra Hull and Del McCoury took a tour through the historic building, with a video camera in tow. Sierra got Del to share some memories from his first visit to see the Opry there as a boy, [...]
Sierra Hull made a live television appearance on the mid-day news program for WSLS 1o in Roanoke, VA, promoting her appearance tonight in nearby Rocky Mount at the Harvester Performance Center. It offers a nice look at her new performance vehicle, a duo show with Ethan Jodziewisz on bass. They played a song from their upcoming [...]
What would you be willing to pay for 9 straight nights of live bluegrass, cybercast right into your home? Well it doesn't much matter, as the folks at Concert Window who have scheduled Bluegrass Roundup, their first ever multi-day bluegrass festival online, will be offering most of the concerts on a donation-based, pay-what-you-want basis. 50 different acts, [...]
Sierra Hull is in the studio again this month trying to finish up her third project for Rounder Records, which is expected to be released sometime in 2015. When discussing this record with Rounder's Ken Irwin this summer, he suggested that she was "going in a little different direction," and so it seems to be. [...]
Sierra Hull and Jesse Gregory, two of the finest singers in Nashville, have put together this home video version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, one of the most beloved 20th Century holiday songs. It was introduced in 1944 by Judy Garland in the film, Meet Me In St. Louis, but the version that is [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Museum will continue to host its annual mandolin camp at IBMM headquarters in Owensboro, KY under the direction of Mike Compton. Some confusion has arisen owing to Mike moving his Bill Monroe mandolin camp to Nashville, which had previously been held at the museum each Fall. Compton looked for a new home [...]
We all enjoyed Sierra Hull's travel blogs while she was traveling around the world with her band last month. She shared some of the highlights of her time in Micronesia and Israel here at Bluegrass Today. Now that she's back home, Sierra is going through all the photos and videos they shot, and putting them [...]
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou National holidays in America each have their cultural traditions and specific icons like American Flags, Pumpkins, or even Festivus Poles. Typically, family is the center of those traditions. But not [...]
