Hull performed with the band Highway 111 at the Gettysburg Bluegrass festival in 2005. 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. Hull received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation, on October 19, 2013. Hull has already received five International Bluegrass Music Association nominations in the past three years. She has a brother, Cody, and is a distant cousin of former United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Hull and Krauss, along with Dan Tyminski, performed at the White House on November 21, 2011. At age 11 she was mentored and befriended by Alison Krauss, herself once a child prodigy on the fiddle. 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. She was soon playing jam sessions with other musicians in her family, and by 2001 she was entering local talent contests. Hull began playing the mandolin at the age of eight and put out the album Angel Mountain at 10. Sierra Hull was born and raised in Byrdstown, Tennessee and attended Pickett County High School before accepting a Presidential Scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music.
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