Tickets for Sierra Hull:
Tickets for Sierra Hull are available for $50, $35, and $20 at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. (Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.)
St. Cecilia Music Center (SCMC) brings twice Grammy Nominated bluegrass sensation Singer/Songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist Sierra Hull to Grand Rapids with her band on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. This will be St. Cecilia Music Center’s kick off concert of the 2024 – 2025 season. Sierra Hull has already established herself as a pioneer for acoustic music in her young two-decade career. She has graced the country's most iconic stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Grand Ole Opry, and the White House. Sierra Hull is also a six-time recipient of IBMA's (International Blue Grass Association) Mandolin Player of the Year, the first woman to ever receive this distinction. Her virtuosic abilities have garnered high respect from many trailblazers, friends, and collaborators such as Alison Krauss, Sturgill Simpson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Bela Fleck, Bobby McFerrin, and Brandi Carlile.
Executive & Artistic Director of SCMC Cathy Holbrook says, “We are so excited to bring Sierra Hull and her band to the SCMC Acoustic Café Folk Series and to launch our exciting new 2024 – 2025 concert season. As a young artist who began her career at age 10, Sierra has already hit more milestones than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. Her energetic stage presence and her wonderful musicianship as a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, will totally impress our audience on September 17!”
Additional artists announced so far for the Acoustic Café Folk Series include Nashville sensation Valerie June performing “An Evening of Valerie June” on November 12, 2024; the Del McCoury Band featuring the iconic bluegrass performer Del McCoury and his musician sons, Ronnie and Rob, on December 5, 2024; and beloved singer songwriter Judy Collins on March 13, 2025. Additional Acoustic Café Folk Series concerts will be announced throughout the new season.
Tickets for Sierra Hull are available for $50, $35, and $20 at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. (Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.)
Sierra Hull’s Bio:
In her first 25 years of age, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sierra Hull hit more milestones than many musicians accomplish in a lifetime. After making her Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 10, the Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist played Carnegie Hall at age 12, then landed a deal with Rounder Records just a year later. Now 28-years-old, Hull is set to deliver her fourth elegantly inventive and endlessly captivating full-length album called 25 Trips. As a profound storyteller, 25 Trips finds Hull shedding light on the beauty and chaos and sometimes sorrow of growing up and getting older. To that end, the album’s title nods to a particularly momentous year of her life, including her marriage to fellow bluegrass musician Justin Moses and the release of her widely acclaimed album Weighted Mind—a Béla Fleck- produced effort nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
Hailing from the tiny Tennessee hamlet of Byrdstown, she learned to sing from her mother as toddler, took up mandolin just a few years later, and began joining in local bluegrass jams by the young age of eight. With her childhood triumphs including joining her hero and mentor Alison Krauss onstage at the Grand Ole Opry at age 11, she made her Rounder debut with the 2008 album Secrets and promptly garnered the first of many nominations for Mandolin Player of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards. In 2016, after a near- decade of consecutive nominations, Hull became the first-ever woman to win the award—then claimed that prize again at the 2017 and 2018 IBMAs. Over the years, Hull has also maintained a rigorous touring schedule and has made occasional guest appearances with such icons as the Indigo Girls, Garth Brooks, and Gillian Welch.
Marking a bold new era in Hull’s artistic evolution, 25 Trips wholly channels the pure and palpable joy she discovered in the album’s creation—and ultimately illuminates certain truths about the indelible connection between risk-taking and reward. “One of the things I most enjoyed about making this record was getting to show the wide variety of music I love,” says Hull. “I don’t really know what category the album falls in, but I also think that matters less and less. What really matters to me is trusting myself to be who I am, and just putting my voice and my heart out there in the sincerest way that I possibly can.”
Acoustic Café Folk Series Single Tickets
Sierra Hull
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
A section $50
B section $35
C section $20
An Evening with Valerie June
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
A section $70
B section $55
C section $40
Del McCoury Band
Thursday, December 5, 2024
A section $70
B section $55
C section $40
Judy Collins
Thursday, March 13, 2025
A section $65
B section $50
C section $35
(Additional Acoustic Café Folk Series Concerts to be announced)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series Single Tickets
Virtuoso Winds
Thursday, November 7, 2024
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Schubert’s Trout Quintet
Thursday, March 20, 2025
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence
Thursday, April 24, 2025
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Spectacular Jazz Series Single Tickets
Joshua Redman
Friday, October 4, 2024
A section $60
B section $45
C section $30
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Thursday, February 20, 2025
A section $60
B section $45
C section $30
Julian Lage
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Christian McBride & Ursa Major
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
A section $70
B section $55
C section $40
Season Tickets
Individual tickets for the 2024-2025 Spectacular Jazz Series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series are now available online at www.scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. Detailed information for all concerts can be viewed at www.scmcgr.org.
**Ticket prices: There is a $7 fee on each subscription ticket. Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS BENEFITS
- By subscribing to the Chamber and Jazz Series (six concerts), you receive 20% off the single ticket price.
- By subscribing to either the Chamber or Jazz Series (four concerts), you receive 15% off the single ticket price.
- Subscriptions are not offered for the Folk Series, however as a subscriber, you will have the benefit of purchasing tickets to these concerts first prior to the public sale. (Folk Series Concerts will be announced this summer and throughout the season as these concerts are booked.)
- Subscribers have the benefit of choosing their seats and are guaranteed those seats for the season.
Purchase Subscription Tickets online at www.scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. Contact the Box Office Manager at [email protected] or 616-459-2224 x201 with questions. **Ticket prices: There is a $7 fee on each subscription ticket. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Music Society Series
3-concert subscription
15% discount off single ticket prices
Subscription $141
Spectacular Jazz Series
4-concert subscription
15% discount off single ticket prices
Subscription $209
Chamber + Jazz Subscription package
20% discount off single ticket prices
7-concert combination series
Subscription $328
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