Two-time Grammy nominee, Sierra Hull, has reached the pinnacle of bluegrass on her chosen instrument, The Mandolin.

Special correspondent Tom Koshado has the story of how she got there for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

On this night at the Hamilton in Washington, D.C., it's easy enough to hear why 33-year-old

Sierra Hull has been six times named the International Bluegrass Association's

mandolinist of the year.

Not as immediately clear is why Rolling Stone has termed her a rebel of the genre.

Usually I'm just kind of searching for sounds and going by feel and trying to write something

that is satisfied.

And indeed, she and her band are right at home with traditional bluegrass sounds.

But take the lead single from her latest album, a tiptoe highwire.

It's a song called Boom.

American songwriter used a pretty non-blue term for it.

They called it Funky.

Funky? All right.

I'll take it.

I'm thinking, I wonder if Sierra Hull grew up,

thought someday people are going to hear me play the mandolin and say,

well, that's funky.

No, I probably wouldn't have thought about it, honestly.

But the song is kind of funky. It's kind of funky. That's the beauty of, I probably wouldn't have thought about it, honestly. But the song is kind of funky.

It's kind of funky.

That's the beauty of where I've gotten to more than I would have imagined, just things,

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