Sierra Hull has small hands, but it doesn't keep her away from the octave mandolin. I guess I'll have to come up with a different excuse!
Sierra Hull has small hands, but it doesn't keep her away from the octave mandolin. I guess I'll have to come up with a different excuse!
There is no excuse for not playing the OM
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
Great way to start my day. Sierra rocks!!!!!!
Joe Zingsheim
I saw Sierra Hull in that tour, and on that particular number I was in awe. We had seen her playing wonderfully on mandolin all evening. And I guess I had gotten a little complacent. Then she takes out the octave. Its a great instrument itself and sounds amazing. But her playing, that over the top, as usual, and on an octave... I just sat back in awe. The realization finaly gripped me that there is no connection between what she does and what I do. Its not a continuum where I do that, just slower. Its more like she plays mandolin and I chop chord wood.
I chatted with her briefly after the show at the CD counter, asking her about the octave, and I can't remember a thing she said.
JeffD,
Ditto for me. I, too, saw her a few months ago and felt the same way. It's awe-inspiring and somewhat demoralizing all at the same time.I saw Sierra Hull in that tour, and on that particular number I was in awe.
The experience did leave me with a case of OMAS that hasn't been remedied as of yet...
Robert
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Hi Bernie,
It is a Weber; a Fern I believe. It really does sound rich and full.
Robert
I saw her on 4/21 in West Milford, NJ. It was a small intimate setting and I sat at most 15 feet from Sierra. It was one of the best concerts I've seen. She broke a string on her mandolin during the last tune of the last set and flatpicked a couple of fiddle tunes on guitar for the encore. She's just as good on guitar. The whole band was great.
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