Sierra Hull, six-time Bluegrass Music Association Mandolin Player of the Year, will perform 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16 at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Hull has been nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2026 ...

If you want to become an expert at something, you have to put the reps in — you have to practice, you need experience, and bluegrass singer-songwriter Sierra Hull has a lot of it. The highly decorated ...

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of the mandolin. However, there’s a player out there who is about to change my mind–Hamilton de Holanda. The mandolin has a higher-pitched, kind of thinner sound ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time, he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. WKMS’s Derek Operle reports.

Sierra Hull toured with Billy Strings, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan in May. Hull's sixth album blends traditional and progressive bluegrass influences. Railbird marks a return to Lexington, where Hull ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time, he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. WKMS’s Derek Operle reports. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news ...