The performance is part of the Oglebay Park Summer Concert Series, and admission is free. Showtime is 7 p.m.

Hull will be joined by her husband, Justin Moses, who also is a talented multi-instrumentalist, as well as an established touring artist and experienced session musician. The concert is part of a series of duo shows Hull has scheduled this summer — just as one whirlwind chapter in her musical career winds down and starts to hint at the beginning pages of the next chapter.

At home in Nashville during a rare and fleeting break from relentless tour dates, she took time to talk about the upcoming show in Wheeling, her evolution from being considered a “child prodigy” to a seasoned 26-year-old songwriter/solo artist, and her hopes and plans for the future.

Since Memorial Day weekend when Hull returned to perform at Del Fest in Cumberland, Md., she’s gone on a European tour, then returned to the states with dates for solo, duo and festival shows on a summer tour that bounces her back and forth from Virginia to Colorado, with cross-country, pinball-style tour stops in Oregon, Maine, West Virginia, New York, Kentucky and Vermont peppered in between.

Photos Provided The cover of Sierra Hull’s Grammy-nominated album “Weighted Mind” is shown.

It’s been more than two years since her fourth and latest album “Weighted Mind” was released. Produced by renowned, innovative banjo guru Bela Fleck, “Weighted Mind” was nominated for a Grammy for Folk Album of the Year in December 2016.

“I’ve toured like a crazy person over the past two and a half years around this record,” Hull said with a laugh. “But I love it. I love traveling and I love playing live.”

Her “solo” shows usually consist of herself backed by one or sometimes two musicians. She’s performed most of her “Sierra Hull shows” in support of “Weighted Mind” with upright bassist Ethan Jodzeiwicz, who recorded and helped anchor the stripped-down and emotionally revealing album with her. They’ve been joined by saxophone player Eddie Barbash on several dates, and there have since been other shows with guest musicians on electric guitar, piano and fiddle thrown into the mix.

“This year has been a year to kind of expand to do different things and see what’s next,” she said. “It’s really been a fun, collaborative, experimental year for me in trying to take some of this music that was built for the really sparse setting of mandolin and bass and trying to almost rearrange these pretty detailed songs for more people. I’ve also been trying some new material that way, too, so it’s been really fun.”

Hull is to the mandolin as a Jedi is to The Force. Her natural, ninja-like skills on the instrument have only sharpened over the past 18 years since she was presented with her first mandolin at age 8. Her skills were evident at a young age, and by age 11, she had released her first album “Angel Mountain.” The self-released album and word-of-mouth sensation about the young prodigy caught the attention of bluegrass star Alison Krauss (who along with the great Quincy Jones shares the title as the most decorated living Grammy winners with 27 trophies each). Krauss took Hull under her wing and invited her to play the Grand Ole Opry when she was 11.

Justin Moses

By age 12, she was performing across the country and playing with other artists at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater. “That was my first trip to Colorado — playing at Red Rocks,” she said. “A crazy introduction to Colorado! I remember thinking, ‘Wow, this is such a cool venue!’ I would love to do my own show there someday.”

At the tender age of 13, she was signed to Rounder Records, and she was 16 when the first album on the label, “Secrets,” was released. Also at 16, Hull was performing internationally along with her band Highway 111. Through an international exchange program for young musicians, she was a featured performer during a trip to Japan, which coincidentally featured the Wheeling Park High School Bluegrass Band, as well.

In the world of today’s top bluegrass musicians, she has collaborated and shared the stage with so many of them on so many occasions over so many years now, there’s no denying she has established herself as one of their peers.

Hull has played at the White House, Carnegie Hall, the Ryman Theater and the Kennedy Center. She became the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music.

For a young artist in her mid-20s, she has already had a lifetime of experience in the music industry. Yet, she says she continues to develop and learn. Her most recent material reveals through her songwriting how she has grown.

Sierra Hull

“I think there’s been a natural progression of just growing older and finding who I am as an artist, which is a constant discovery,” Hull said. “I’m grateful that I was able to get started so young. I grew up playing a lot of really traditional bluegrass. That was really where I started. Getting to do these shows with Justin, we’re going to try to focus a little bit more on playing some of that.”

Her original music showcased on “Weighted Mind” at times tiptoes away from bluegrass and almost dances into the edges of jazz and classical music with her masterful playing and sincere, heartfelt writing.

“I felt like I needed to write music of my own, and I needed to say what felt honest,” she said. “That was the only way I felt really satisfied, at least during that time period. I think at that point in my life, I had more of a need to sing about something that felt true, felt honest somehow. For me, that was something I’ve been able to do through writing. I think when I write, it wasn’t coming out like traditional bluegrass. I think it naturally came out differently, because my life experience is different.”

Hull advises young songwriters to stay true to themselves, to believe in themselves and push forward with the genuine product.

“I think you’ve got to try to not worry so much about thinking what you have to say might not be important,” she said. “I think if it means something to you, and you feel like you’re trying to just create honest music, that speaks for itself sometimes. Because I think people can tell if what you’re doing seems sincere or not.

“Also in the same way, I think it is so important to study the greats and whoever you think is great, so to speak. I’ve had my heroes. I knew I wanted to play mandolin. I knew I wanted to write and sing. I found artists and musicians who inspired me to get better at doing that. For instance, I took my mandolin heroes and would try to learn every note of solos they played. And I’m still trying to learn from those people.”

Hull said if you really dig in and learn from your musical heroes — not just copy them but learn and discover who you are from them — you are actually expanding your own musical vocabulary.

“You’re really learning to speak the language, and that way you can ultimately express things in your own way, because you’ve spent enough time really studying people who have been doing it and are so good at it.”

Hull says she never loses the respect and admiration for her heroes, like Krauss.

“It’s the thing with me that gets written about the most, but it’s true — Alison Krauss was one of the early people to take me under her wings, so to speak, but she was also at the same time my biggest hero,” Hull said. “There was nobody I could imagine wanting to be on stage with more than her. And I think that I’m so fortunate to have had that as a a young person. She’s still somebody that I share the stage with from time to time, and as I get older, I still always feel like I have such a great amount of admiration and respect for her. I think you never quite lose your child-like love of people like that. She certainly is still one of my favorites, and has been since I was really young.”

The current batch of Hull’s duo shows with her husband — like the upcoming show Sunday in Wheeling — are giving her a chance to get back to her roots.

“I know these shows with Justin are going to be really fun,” Hull said. “It’s special to share the stage with my husband, who is a super talented guy. It’s going to be quite different than what I’m typically doing when I’m on the road doing my Sierra Hull shows. We really wanted to make the effort to bring something special to these shows. We want to do some different material, play songs we’ve both loved for a long time, maybe some more instrumental tunes we’ve written and some more bluegrass than what you might typically hear when you come to one of my regular shows these days, which isn’t as much bluegrass.”

For someone who travels so much, it’s not possible to stay planted in one spot for very long. But strong roots run deep, and getting back to playing more traditional bluegrass may be Hull’s way to keep her emotionally rooted at home, even when she’s on the road.

“A lot of the bluegrass that I really love is more traditional,” she said. “I totally grew up in a tiny town in Tennessee, and I mean gosh, bluegrass music to me feels like home. It feels like where I come from. The sound of that music sounds like my family, my people. That’s really where I come from and what I grew up doing.”

Hull said in the midst of relentless touring, she’s continued to write and explore what the next chapter will be.

“My goal is to record again soon,” Hull said. “I’m trying to take a little time off this fall, even though it always ends up being busy anyway! But my hope is really to kind of slow down enough to get to record again. I think there’s something to be said about every couple of years, if you play as much as what I’ve been playing, you start to feel the need for a new story to tell. And that’s part of what having a new record does –it gives you a new story to tell, some new music to play and something to be super excited about.”

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On Her Heroes

Aside from Alison Krauss, Hull cited several musicians from the bluegrass world and beyond as influences. She’s gotten to share the stage and collaborate with many great players over the years, and she mentioned some of her favorite encounters and most memorable experiences.

“Gosh — there are so many people out there,” she said. “I mentioned Larry Sparks (Ohio-born bluegrass veteran, now 70, who she had mentioned wrote a song about Wheeling). I remember how fun it was to get to do something with him. The Grammys were honoring Alison with a party, and she got to chose somebody to represent her — basically play a song in honor of her — and she asked Larry if he would be that guy. Of all the people she could ask, I love that she would ask one of her traditional bluegrass heroes. I got to play with him. And it was super fun.”

Hull hosted her own music festival for a decade, and has played other festival dates across the country throughout her career, getting the opportunity to jam with a who’s who of musicians. She’s served as “artist-at-large” at a number of festivals, including at past Del Fest music festivals, where it was her role to bounce around and do “sit ins” with many of the other acts on the bill during the festival.

“There are so many people I’m a fan of,” she said. “I’m just talking within the bluegrass world right now. I’ve got to spend a lot of time with Del McCoury – who I think is one of the most sincere and wonderful entertainers there is out there.”

Hull mentioned she’s seen the duo show by Del McCoury and David Grisman – who happen to be performing next weekend in New Martinsville as part of the free Back Home Appalachian Music & Arts Festival. “That will be a great show,” she said. “I’ve seen them do their duo show before, and it’s awesome!”

On Her Bucket List

Although Hull has gotten the opportunity to play with countless musicians, she still has dreams of maybe someday collaborating with many others for whom she has a great deal of admiration.

“I did meet Dolly Parton, who is one of my biggest heroes,” she said. “I did get a little starstruck with that. Actually, Dolly’s one of those people I’ve still never played with, and I would love to get a chance to do that. Paul Simon would be on that list, too. Honestly – though she hardly does anything as far as performing anymore, Joni Mitchell would be on that list. I’m a Sarah Bareilles fan, heck I’m a big Beyonce fan! I love all styles of music, and there are a lot of people I’d put on that list. Bonnie Raitt is a big hero of mine, that I would love to get the chance to share the stage with sometime. I feel like the list could go on an on – of people that I love like that.

As far as venues go, there are a few places and events that have somehow eluded her often crazy and very thorough tour schedules.

“I’ve never played Bonnaroo — that just happened,” she said of the mammoth annual music and arts festival that took place in Manchester, Tenn., in June. “I think it would be fun to get to play Bonneroo sometime. I’ve been so lucky. A lot of the place I’ve played, I’ve never even dreamed of. It was never even on my bucket list to play the White House. That just seemed so far fetched.”

Hull said there are a lot of places she’s played along with other musicians or as an opening act that she would love to headline someday.

“I’ve played my own show many times at the Ryman (home to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., from 1943-74), but usually in relation with somebody else,” she said. “So like my husband Justin and I are playing the Ryman this year as part of the Bluegrass Nights opening up for Hot Rize, and that’s really special – don’t get me wrong, I’m super excited to do that, and I think it will be special to do that with Justin as well, but it would certainly be a dream come true to get to have my own show – to get to be the headliner at the Ryman. Because that’s probably my favorite venue in the world. I love playing there, especially with living in Nashville and making Nashville my home for many years now. That would be one of the bucket list things for sure.”

On What She’s Listening to Now

Hull spoke to us during a short break on her summer tour. She was in Nashville, where she makes her home, but still busy. She was coming from a photo shoot in Nashville, doing the interview by phone in her car and looking ahead later that day to squeezing in some rehearsal time with her husband before kicking off their series of duo shows.

So what does she listen to when she’s driving around? What are the current go-to albums in her CD stash? What would she be listening to in the car if she wasn’t doing an interview?

“Since I’m always riding around Nashville in short spurts, I’d probably be listening to NPR! (laugh) But, I can look down and see what I’ve go here ? I’ve got Stevie Wonder, ‘The Definitive Collection,’; I’ve got Marty Stuart, ‘Way Out West,’; and this record that I played on — Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls — she did a solo record, I played mandolin on it, and she gave me a copy. Let’s see, I’ve got a really cool mandolin record by Tiny Moore and Jethro Burns. So I like listening to all kinds of stuff.”

Hull said during the photo shoot she had just finished, the photographer had asked what she would like to listen to while they did the photo session, suggesting Hull select something “fun.”

“I said, ‘Let’s put on Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ album!’ So we went with that, and then we were listening to some Michael Jackson,” she laughed.

“I really just love all kinds of music. I’ve been on a classical kick. I didn’t grow up playing any classical music. But through playing with somebody as talented as Ethan, who did grow up playing classical music, among other things, it’s been really fun to have somebody to kind of dig into a few of those pieces with. So we’ve learned some of the Bach Inventions, which were originally written for piano, but you’ve kind of got your left hand and your right hand – and since the range of our instruments don’t really work to play both parts — It would be pretty crazy, I don’t think it would really be possible to play all the parts at one time on our instruments — we can divide the parts out so he can play the left hand (piano part with his bass) and I can play the right hand (piano part with her mandolin) — so you have these Bach pieces that really work well as a duet.

“I’ve been listening to (classical pianist) Glenn Gould for that kind of stuff. So, it’s amazing how much good music there is to listen to!”