Sierra Hull: "Bombshell" | Jubilee | KET

Mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull performs "Bombshell" on the 2013 season of Jubilee, recorded live at the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Association Fan Fest in Nashville. Considered one of the top young mandolin players in bluegrass today, Sierra Hull calls her mandolin performances "playing with a point to prove" and her singing as "doing the songs justice." When Hull, native of Byrdstown, Tenn., was 11 years old, bluegrass legend Alison Krauss called her with an invitation to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. At the age of 13, Hull was signed to Rounder Records, and she released her debut album, Secrets, just three years later at the age of 16. Over three years, she has been nominated for five IBMA awards, and Berklee College of Music in Boston awarded her its Presidential Scholarship, a first for a bluegrass musician. This Jubilee episode (which also features Balsam Range) is available to watch at http://www.KET.org/jubilee. You can catch more 2012 Fan Fest performances in the Jubilee YouTube playlist:    • Jubilee   Jubilee is a KET production. Nick Helton is the producer/director and Teresa Day is the executive producer. KET is Kentucky's largest classroom, serving more than one million people each week via television, online and mobile. Learn more about Kentucky's preeminent public media organization on Twitter @KET and   / ket   and at http://www.KET.org.