Sierra Hull returns to ORNL Federal Credit Union’s Summer Session Aug. 12
ORNL Federal Credit Union welcomes back Sierra Hull and the Hogslop String Band to its final Summer Sessions concert of the 2023 series on Saturday, Aug. 12, in Oak Ridge.
Playing the Summer Sessions event for the first time will be The Tillers and FERD, hailing from Cincinnati and New Orleans respectively.
Making her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 10 with hero and mentor Alison Krauss, Hull’s career started early.
By age 12, she had played at Carnegie Hall and her debut album, Secrets, was released when she was 13, garnering the first of many International Bluegrass Music Association nominations for Mandolin Player of the Year.
At age 16, Hull played at the Kennedy Center, and just a year later, she became the first bluegrass musician to receive a presidential scholarship to the Berklee College of Music.
An accomplished singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Hull finds inspiration in Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, and Sam Bush. In 2010, she captured her first IBMA award for Recorded Event of the Year.
She was shedding the prodigy tag, turning virtuoso, and releasing her second album, Daybreak, with seven of her own original compositions. In her hometown of Byrdstown, she has hosted an eponymous annual bluegrass festival. By 2016, Hull had reached a more mature place in her life and art.