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Sierra Hull is a seven-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year and six-time Grammy nominee, one of bluegrass and Americana’s most dynamic voices. Her latest album, A Tip Toe High Wire, her first independent release, highlights her songwriting and instrumental mastery, featuring Béla Fleck, Tim O’Brien, and Aoife O'Donovan. The album is nominated for four GRAMMY Awards, balancing tradition with innovation. Hull has shared stages with Alison Krauss, Eric Clapton, Sturgill Simpson, Slash, and Robert Randolph, and performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk and The Kelly Clarkson Show. She is the first female artist with a Gibson signature mandolin and a Tennessee Governor’s Distinguished Arts Award recipient.

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Bella McCormick
Bella McCormick is a Nashville-based country artist and songwriter with the kind ofnatural charisma, modern confidence, and classic storytelling instincts that make her feelboth fresh and familiar. A recent Ole Miss graduate, Bella has quickly become one ofNashville’s most promising new voices, building early momentum through sharpsongwriting, a magnetic vocal performance, breathtaking guitar playing, and anincreasingly undeniable connection with fans.Bella’s foundation as a songwriter runs deep. While still an undergraduate at Ole Miss, shewrote more than 200 songs, quietly developing the voice, discipline, and perspective thatnow define her artistry. Her music lives in the space between country tradition and theenergy of her generation - rooted in Southern storytelling, emotional honesty, and amodern sense of independence.That connection to country music is also personal. Bella’s father, Lee McCormick, wasdeeply rooted in Nashville’s 1970s and 1980s scene, running in circles and buildingmeaningful relationships with legendary songwriters and artists including WaylonJennings, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt. He placed instruments in Bella’s handswhen she was just five years old, introducing her not only to music itself, but to theNashville songwriting tradition and the power of live performance. Bella grew up with thathistory close to her, absorbing the spirit of a creative culture built on truth, grit, poetry,individuality, and songs that were meant to be lived as much as written.Her path has also been shaped by the guidance of Grammy-winning producer PaulWorley, who has been a friend and mentor to Bella since she was very young. That earlyproximity to world-class songs, artists, and record-making helped give Bella both a respectfor the craft and a clear sense of the standard she is chasing.As a performer, Bella brings an easy, unforced confidence to the stage - the kind that feelsless manufactured than discovered. Whether playing an acoustic room, a college-townshow, a festival stage, or writing in Nashville’s creative circles, she carries herself like anartist with a clear point of view and a long runway ahead.With music in development, a growing creative team around her, and a wave of earlyindustry momentum, Bella McCormick is emerging as new artist to watch in countrymusic - one built for the modern landscape, but grounded in the timeless qualities thatmake country music last.

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