Bluegrass singer-songwriter and virtuoso mandolinist Sierra Hull is coming to Owensboro on October 13 for a performance at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.
Tickets start at $32 and are on sale now here. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7.
Hull made her Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 10 and played Carnegie Hall at age 12, then landed a deal with Rounder Records just a year later. Now 28, Hull is set to deliver her fourth full-length album, titled “25 Trips.”
The album encompasses everything from bluegrass to folk-pop to ethereal alt-rock.
“One of the things I most enjoyed about making this record was getting to show the wide variety of music I love,” says Hull. “I don’t really know what category the album falls in, but I also think that matters less and less. What really matters to me is trusting myself to be who I am, and just putting my voice and my heart out there in the most sincere way that I possibly can.”
Hailing from the tiny Tennessee town of Byrdstown, she learned to sing from her mother as a toddler, took up mandolin just a few years later, and began joining in local bluegrass jams by the age of 8.
With her childhood triumphs including joining her hero and mentor Alison Krauss onstage at the Grand Ole Opry at age 11, she made her Rounder debut with the 2008 album “Secrets” and promptly garnered the first of many nominations for Mandolin Player of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards.
In 2016, after a near decade of consecutive nominations, Hull became the first woman to win Mandolin Player of the Year — then claimed that prize again at the 2017 and 2018 IBMAs. Over the years, has made occasional guest appearances with such icons as the Indigo Girls, Garth Brooks, and Gillian Welch.
