Big Sciota - Sierra Hull and Portland Chamber Orchestra 

And rightfully so. Too bad though that, while the banjo was playing back up to the mandolin it stayed too loud in the mix. Sierra's mandolin breaks were no where near loud enough. This happens when you're letting people, not familiar with Bluegrass, making decisions about amplification and mix. That was applicable in 1960 and it stil is....

She is an American treasure! So is her husband Justin and the whole circle of musicians she is associated with.

indeed!

Was lucky enough to see her perform tonight in an acoustically perfect 400 seat(sold out) theater in Connecticut. It was literally a mind blowing performance, what stood out to me is how effortlessly she plays. Just a fantastic night of music.

I agree she is very talented I love how she plays first slow then she gets faster and I can't help but dance.

She’s an absolute gifted artist. Sensational

I made a similar comment before I read yours. Exactly!

Big Sciota is not technically a bluegrass piece, but rather from a style of music called Old Time. It was very popular in Appalachia and the midwest back in the 1800s and early 1900s. In time it gave birth to a new genre that was called bluegrass (1940s or so), but this is an Old Time fiddle tune.

@@SuperBillstanley good to know...I guess?

Check out Mike Marshall doing Choro tunes

Adjust the playback speed to 1.25x. It sounds pretty solid.

I tend to agree. They might’ve changed the arrangement to suit orchestral instrumentation, but they didn't.

I agree completely ,sounds constipated but still great.

I love Sierra Hull but I couldn't help hear how out of sync this was, and no sense of drive

He was super cool!

Likewise with classically trained and jazz players, such as when Yehudi Menuhin used to jam with Stefan Grappelli, both brilliant but very different.

Technically this is not a Bluegrass tune. It is a fiddle 'reel' in the Irish style, from a fiddler in West Virginia. But unfortunately there were no fiddlers in the orchestra...just violinists:) Sierra does an excellent rendition on mandolin. Those outside the South would deem this Bluegrass. But in the South we understand the delineations...

@@fretfix1 Technically, you are right, but adding a banjo, 3 finger style makes anything into Bluegrass. No origin of any tune can't take away from that.

Groan.

No, that would be Chris Thile

​@brunovanhoek96 agreed, she'd have to be a later guitarist's analog

Keith Reed. Great guy, used to take lessons from him. He's the director of the bluegrass ensemble at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

Huh? Explain

@@Radionut Hi there Radionut. A Banjoplayer in a sandcoloured suit with a huge Stetson hat looking like a polar bear surrounded by a classical orchestra, all dressed like penguins. Misplaced Banjoplayers. Polar bears. Penguins. Trademarks of beloved Gary Larson. No disrespect intended at all. I love Big Sciota, Sierra Hull and Gary Larson. The Bluegrassbanjo I love when played by John Hartford RIP, Noam Pikelny or Bela Fleck, the Clawhammerbanjo when played by just about anyone. It's a sour thing to explain a joke, but since you've been asking. Happy now?

Keith Reed

@@bricetucker2117 Thank you! I hoped someone would come up with his name.

Wondered the same

Keith Reed, director of the Bluegrass Ensemble at Colorado College

I used to live on the Scioto!

@@hannahmeixner6616 Sounds moist.

Yep, it comes in several names...

Probably wasn't an English word to begin with....

On that soundtrack Mark O'Connor did Flowers of Edinburgh, a tune which has the same chord sequence as Big Sciota, - I seguey the two tunes, they go really well together.

Thanks, I'll be sure to play them both back to back!

That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have any proof to backup your claim that they have excluded anyone? Or, could it be those were they only folks interested in joining?

@@stixx3969 Well, I had hoped by my comments following my initial comment that I was being ironic--for a chuckle and to poke at the WOKE. As I wrote, I am not WOKE, but what I initially wrote is precisely what the WOKE mob would have written. I'm taking shots at the WOKE everyday. I hate them, and what they are doing to every part of society--here and in other western countries. Go back and read my comments again, and I think I make it clear that I am acting like one of them in the first comment, and then quickly follow up by stating my feelings about them. Personally, I don't give a sh*t about what color an orchestra is. I care whether they are playing competently and what type of music they are performing.

@@lonzo61 wow....you really sound triggered. While we're at it....define "woke." I would add that you sound like a dyed in the wool Trump supporter. Would I be wrong in that assessment?

I am not a Trump supporter. And I don't know why I sound "triggered" by virtue of having simply replied to your comment.

@@lonzo61 Really? You sure sound like one...

Spaghetti Western version

Most exceptional folk players can also read dots on lines ;)