Sierra Hull Biography, Age, Education, Musician, Recordings, Songs, Albums, Tour, Family

Sierra Hull Biography

Sierra Hull (Sierra Dawn Hull) is an American bluegrass singer-songwriter, mandolinist, and guitarist born on September 27, 1991, in Byrdstown, Tennessee, United States. She is famously for her best role in producing quality music.

She was therefore assigned to Rounder Records at the age of 13 and she released her debut vocal album, Secrets, in 2008 at the age of 16. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums chart.

Sierra Hull Age

Sierra Hull was born on September 27, 1991 (she is 27 years old as of 2018)

Sierra Hull Net worth

Sierra Hull has an estimated net worth of $ 4 million.

Sierra Hull Family

Sierra Hull was born to Stacy Hull (father) and Brenda Hull (mother). She has a brother, Cody, who is a distant cousin of former United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

Sierra Hull Education

Sierra Hull attended Pickett County High School before accepting the Presidential Scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music.

Sierra Hull Husband

Sierra Hull is married to Justin Moses in 2017 who is also a fellow bluegrass musician like. They all tour together.

Sierra Hull Musician

Sierra Hull started her musical career while in school. She, therefore, began playing the mandolin at the age of eight and put out the album Angel Mountain at 10. She was soon playing the jam sessions with other musicians in her family, and by 2001 she was entering local talent contests. Her parents, Stacy and Brenda Hull, took her to numerous bluegrass festivals and it was during an International Bluegrass Music Association festival that she came to the attention of Rounder Records chief talent scout Ken Irwin.

At age 11 she was mentored and befriended by Alison Krauss, herself once a child prodigy on the fiddle. Her and Krauss, sung along with Dan Tyminski, with whom she performed at the White House on November 21, 2011. She has received the five International Bluegrass Music Association nominations in the past three years. She has also received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation, on October 19, 2013.

The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music and bringing it to new audiences while preserving its character and heritage. She performed with the band Highway 111 at the Gettysburg Bluegrass festival in 2005. She continued to tour, even while she attended Berklee College of Music.

Sierra Hull Recordings

Sierra Hull has recorded several music lists which are categorized in different forms. She released her vocal debut album on Rounder Records, released in May 2008, was co-produced by Alison Krauss and Ron Block which follows a self-released CD Angel Mountain, in 2002. The production of her and Ron Block paid tribute and honored the tradition and style of bluegrass music. The album contained 3 original songs penned by Hull. She was just 15 when she recorded the album she released it at 16.

She has recorded another album of Daybreak on March 8, 2011. When she was at her 20s her songs were produced by Alison Krauss & Union Station bassist Barry Bales. Her albums feature collaborations with Bryan Sutton on guitar and Randy Kohrs on dobro. Guest singers include Dan Tyminski, Shawn Lane, and Ronnie Bowman.

She has recorded another album of Weighted Mind which was released on January 29, 2016, her Weighted Mind was the third LP, to be produced by highly regarded banjo player Béla Fleck, who encouraged her to consider recording it solo. She, however, decided to enlist an accompanist, bassist Ethan Jodziewicz, who is featured on every track. The album also includes vocal contributions by Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens.

NPR reviewer Jewly Hight called Weighted Mind a “stunning coming-of-age album,” adding that “Hull has joined the rarefied company of Nickel Creek expats Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins, pedigreed virtuosos whose youthful, searching musical minds have taken them into postmodern singer-songwriter territory and beyond.”

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Sierra Hull Albums

Title

Details

Peak chart
positions

US Grass

US Heat

Angel Mountain

Release date: 2002
Label: self-released

—

—

Secrets

Release date: May 6, 2008
Label: Rounder Records

2

—

Daybreak

Release date: March 8, 2011
Label: Rounder Records

5

—

Weighted Mind

Release date: January 29, 2016
Label: Rounder Records

1

5

“—” denotes releases that did not chart

Sierra Hull Other singles

Year

Single

Artist

Album

2007

“Hullarious”

Sierra Hull

An American Tradition

2008

“Just As I Am”

Sierra Hull

Billy: The Early Years

2010

“Gospel Plow”

The Lovell Sisters, Bearfoot, Sierra Hull & The New Generation Jam

MerleFest Live

“Big Sciota”

2011

“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree”

Sixties Invasion featuring Sierra Hull

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

2013

“Cups (When I’m Gone)”

The Bankesters with Sierra Hull

Love Has Wheels

2014

“You’re a Flower Blooming in the Wildwood”

Mac Wiseman with Sierra Hull

Songs from My Mother’s Hand

2014

“Promises”

Jeff Pippin and the Apple Valley Band featuring Sierra Hull

A Malibugrass Christmas

2014

“Let the Wind Be My Friend”

Jon Weisberger featuring Sierra Hull & the Lonesome Heirs

I’ve Been Mostly Awake

2014

“New Camptown Races”

David Naiditch featuring Sierra Hull, Dennis Caplinger, Jake Workman, Austin Ward, Rob Ickes & Stuart Duncan

Bluegrass in the Backwoods

“Little Rock Getaway”

David Naiditch featuring featuring Sierra Hull, Dennis Caplinger, Jake Workman, Christian Ward, Rob Ickes & Austin Ward

“The Smooch On the Porch / Bus Stop Reel”

David Naiditch featuring featuring Sierra Hull, Jake Workman & Austin Ward

“Jamboree”

David Naiditch featuring Dennis Caplinger, Sierra Hull, Rob Ickes, Christian Ward, Jake Workman & Austin Ward

2014

“I Always Do”

Missy Werner featuring Jon Weisberger, Megan McCormick, Stephen Mougin, Maggie Estes White, Thomas Wywrot, Artie Werner & Sierra Hull

Turn This Heart Around

“Wish I Was”

Missy Werner featuring Sarah Siskind, Artie Werner, Megan McCormick, Jon Weisberger, Sierra Hull, Maggie Estes White & Thomas Wywrot

“Cloudless Blue”

Missy Werner featuring Sierra Hull, Megan McCormick, Jon Weisberger, Maggie Estes White, Thomas Wywrot & Artie Werner

“Dead Man Walking”

Missy Werner featuring Thomas Wywrot, Larry Cordle, Val Storey, Sierra Hull, Megan McCormick, Jon Weisberger & Maggie Estes White

“Come Back to Me”

Missy Werner featuring Megan McCormick, Jon Weisberger, Maggie Estes White, Thomas Wywrot & Sierra Hull

2015

“Can’t Help Yourself”

Cindy Morgan featuring Gabe Dixon & Sierra Hull

Bows & Arrows

2015

“Seneca Square Dance”

Ron Block featuring Sierra Hull

Hogan’s House of Music

2017

“They Call The Wind Maria”

Bobby Osborne featuring Alison Brown, Sierra Hull & Stuart Duncan

Original

“Country Boy”

“Kentucky Morning”

Bobby Osborne featuring Dale Ann Bradley, Darrell Scott, Rob Ickes, Sierra Hull & Stuart Duncan

“I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”

Bobby Osborne featuring Alison Brown, Claire Lynch, Rob Ickes, Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan & Trey Hensley

2017

“Roanoke”

David Naiditch featuring Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull & Jake Workman

Bluegrass That Swings

“Back Home Again in Indiana”

“East Tennessee Blues”

“All of Me”

“Cattle in the Cane”

“Exactly Like You”

“Sweet Georgia Brown”

David Naiditch featuring Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Jake Workman & Rob Ickes

“Twinkle Little Star”

“Ookpik Waltz”

2017

“The Guitar”

Mac Wiseman featuring Sierra Hull & Justin Moses

I Sang the Song (Life of the Voice with a Heart)

2017

“I Need Thee Every Hour”

Shane Clark featuring Sierra Hull

The Hymn Awakening

2017

“Strong Hand of Love”

Sierra Hull

Treasure of the Broken Land: The Songs of Mark Heard

2018

“Swept Away”

Missy Raines featuring Alison Brown, Beck Buller, Molly Tuttle & Sierra Hull

Swept Away

2018

“Merlefest Mando Mania”

Tony Williamson featuring Sam Bush & Sierra Hull with Rebecca Lovell, Mike Compton, Darin Aldridge, Tim O’Brien, James Nash, Tom Rozum & Barry Mitterhoff

Heritage

Sierra Hull Awards and nominations

Year

Association

Category

Nominated Work

Result

2010

IBMA Awards

Recorded Event of the Year (with various artists)

“Proud To Be A Daughter of Bluegrass”

Won

2016

Mandolin Player of the Year

Sierra Hull

Won

2017

Won

Recorded Event of the Year
(with Bobby Osborne and various artists)

“I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”

Won

Grammy Awards

Best Folk Album

Weighted Mind

Nominated

2018

IBMA Awards

Mandolin Player of the Year

Sierra Hull

Won

Recorded Event of the Year
(with Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Becky Buller, and Molly Tuttle)

“Swept Away”

Won

Sierra Hull Songs

  • Black River
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Queen Of Hearts / Royal Tea
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • I’ll Be Fine
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Wings Of The Dawn
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Choices And Changes
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Don’t Pick Me Up
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Smashville
    Secrets · 2008
  • Fallen Man
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Hullarious
    Secrets · 2008
  • Tell Me Tomorrow
    Daybreak · 2011
  • The In-Between
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Chasin’ Skies
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Easy Come, Easy Go
    Daybreak · 2011
  • That’s All I Can Say
    Secrets · 2008
  • The Land of Living
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
    Secrets · 2008
  • Best Buy
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
    Secrets · 2008
  • Two Winding Rails
    Secrets · 2008
  • Trust and Obey
    Secrets · 2008
  • Bombshell
    Daybreak · 2011
  • I’ll Always Be Waiting for You
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Pretend
    Secrets · 2008
  • From Now On
    Secrets · 2008
  • Wouldn’t Matter to Me
    Daybreak · 2011
  • Stranded
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • What Do You Say?
    Daybreak · 2011
  • If You Can Tame My Heart
    Secrets · 2008
  • Only My Heart
    Secrets · 2008
  • Lullaby
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Compass
    Weighted Mind · 2016
  • Birthday
    Weighted Mind · 2016

Sierra Hull Tour

  • Thu, 7 Mar
    20:00
    Portland, ME, United States
    One Longfellow Square
  • Fri, 8 Mar
    20:00
    Brownfield, ME, United States
    Stone Mountain Arts Center
  • Sun, 10 Mar
    19:00
    Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
    Caffe Lena
  • Thu, 21 Mar
    19:00
    Enterprise, OR, United States
    OK Theatre
  • Fri, 22 Mar
    19:30
    Mount Vernon, WA, United States
    McIntyre Hall Performing Arts & Conference Center
  • Fri, 29 Mar
    20:00
    Berkeley, CA, United States
    Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
  • Sun, 31 Mar
    15:00
    Portland, OR, United States
    Lewis & Clark College
  • Thu, 4 Apr
    20:00
    Denver, CO, United States
    Oriental Theater
  • Sat, 13 Apr
    19:30
    York, SC, United States
    McCelvey Center
  • Sat, 20 Apr
    Bristol, TN, United States
    Paramount Center for the Arts
  • Thu, 23 May
    10:00
    Cumberland, MD, United States
    Allegany County Fairgrounds
  • Fri, 24 May
    16:00
    Allegany County, MD, United States
    Cumberland
  • Sun, 26 May
    16:00
    Allegany County, MD, United States
    Cumberland
  • Sat, 29 Jun
    16:00
    Butler, OH, United States
    Clear Fork Adventure Resort
  • Sat, 7 Sep
    Pomeroy, OH, United States
    Fur Peace Ranch

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