Sierra Hull
Schedule
Thu Oct 14 2021 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University | Auburn, AL
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Sierra Hull’s positively stellar career started early. That is, if you consider a Grand Ole Opry debut at age 10—and being called back to the stage a year later to perform with her hero and mentor Alison Krauss—to be early. She played Carnegie Hall at 12; at 13 she signed with Rounder Records and issued her debut, Secrets, which garnered the first of many nominations for Mandolin Player of the Year. She played the Kennedy Center at 16 and the next year became the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music. As a 20-year-old, Hull played the White House.In 2010, Hull captured her first International Bluegrass Musician Association (IBMA) award for Recorded Event of the Year and released her second album, Daybreak, with seven original compositions.
By 2016, Hull began to shed the child prodigy tag and reached a more mature place in her life and in her art. She tapped legendary musician Béla Fleck to produce her third album, Weighted Mind. A departure from her opening pair of records, Hull let go of whatever preconceptions existed—both hers and those of her audience—and birthed a Grammy-nominated masterpiece. Months later she was taking home the IBMA award for Mandolin Player of the Year. After a near-decade of consecutive nominations, Hull became the first woman to win the prestigious title.
Currently at work on the follow-up to Weighted Mind, her next album will consist of all original material. “There’s a voice in the back of my head telling me to keep working, to keep moving forward,” Hull says. “You have to keep progressing and introducing new things.”
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Originally scheduled as part of our 2019–20 inaugural season Americana Roots series.
Our 2019–20 inaugural season is sponsored by the Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau and WLTZ-TV.
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Where is it happening?
Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University, 910 South College Street, Auburn, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
