I love to play and to listen music.
Since I started listening to music when I was a teenager I'm looking for new music, that I like.
About two weeks ago I discovered Sierra Ferrell and her music. And I have to say, that there are not many musicians, that thrilled me like she does. Except from that well known Band from London. The mixture of Bluegrass, Country, Gypsy and Pop is unique. And her voice is hard to compare.
When she was younger, she traveled by trainhopping through the US. She survived drug adiction. And she played music since she was a child.
Her live performances must be a fantastic experience.
I guess some of you guys know her.
If you don't know her, you might be impressed:

Sierra Ferrell's YT chanel:

[youtube.com]

My playlist:

[youtube.com]



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She´s great! Love her.

Right now she is one of the artists in the best shape. Highly recommended.

[www.youtube.com]

A very talented woman. I missed her last show because I had tickets to that band with the 80 year old guys.

This is a one of the gigs I started with getting adicted.

[youtu.be]

Interesting artist for sure.
I saw her onstage at Marty Stuart's Late Night Jam in Nashville 2023.
Immediately bought tickets to see her in Detroit a month or so later...

She cancelled.
Sadly, seems like a fairly regular occurrence with her.

Another great show. It's three years ago from September 21. The line-up has changed since then including drums.
The venues she playes meanwhile are bigger.
What a band!

[youtube.com]

ROCKMAN

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Rockman

Okay, that's pretty awesome, thanks.

When Willie was expected to be recovered enough for his Va Beach Outlaw Festival show on June 26th, but wasn't, Sierra was rushed in quickly to special-guest with Lukas Nelson for three songs. But the poor gal hadn't had time to even learn all the lyrics. (Great concert anyway, w/ Dylan and Plant & Krauss.) She still was interesting enough that I added her to my list to see sometime.

Luv this duet with Lukas Nelson doing Adele's "Someone Like You"

[www.youtube.com]

I don't know about her, but I've been following one of her opening acts, Meredith Axelrod, for years.



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Great to see more and more people discover her music. She deserves a bigger audience.

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Great to see more and more people discover her music. She deserves a bigger audience.

Yes, indeed she does!

Here is another highlight. 4 years ago she played with a smaler lineup. This recording is from wxpn winter session in Nashville, December 2020.
Very intimate. She covers different genres easyly.

[youtu.be]



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She won four grammys.
What a performer. She deserves the success of her work.

[youtube.com]

Sierra Ferrell is going to play some shows in the UK, some Festivals in Europe, at Le Trianon in Paris, at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and at the Grünspan in Hamburg.
I'm sure it's going to be fantastic.

[www.sierraferrellmusic.com]



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I highly recomend to go to one of these shows in the small venues.
I guess it's a rare chance to see her in Europe and in the kind of small concert halls she still used to play one or two years ago.



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I don’t know her but reading the posts here, I’m tempted to go see her live.
She plays only 4 shows in the U.K. for her forthcoming European tour. The closest location for me is Glasgow Barrowland, June 25, which clashes with Metallica at Hampden Park (sold out and I haven’t secured a ticket). Hmm…

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I don’t know her but reading the posts here, I’m tempted to go see her live.
She plays only 4 shows in the U.K. for her forthcoming European tour. The closest location for me is Glasgow Barrowland, June 25, which clashes with Metallica at Hampden Park (sold out and I haven’t secured a ticket). Hmm…

Do see her. I did last September. I knew her music, but turned out liking it live much more than I do her studio recordings. It surprised me how much her concert surpassed my expectations. She has some kind of intangible personal quality onstage that's hard to explain, and there's nothing conspicuous or grandiose about it... it's more low-key. There's a sincerity about her... she just seems authentic, naturally empathetic and caring and it translates into a positive connection with her audiences.

She put Blue Virginia Blues in the setlist, which I appreciated all the more after two bigger names had recently passed through town and not bothered with creating any local connection. (Pocahontas had been a local girl, but Neil Young didn't trouble himself to play it. And Alison Krauss had only recently released "Richmond on the James" on her 2025 album, but didn't play it as she stood there in Richmond and so "on the James" her feet were almost wet.)

Sierra Ferrell live just has something about her. She's lived a hard life, maybe that's been a factor in her exuding goodwill, humbly, not making a big deal about it. It just emanates off the stage. I think she's special. Of 40 concerts I went to last year, hers was top three, easy.

This coming September she's playing up the road in Charlottesville, and I'm looking forward to basking in whatever that was again.

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Do see her.

Of 40 concerts I went to last year, hers was top three, easy.

Sounds fabulous. Your enthusiasm for her reminds me of that for Chappell lol.

Metallica’s M72 World Tour has been going on since 2023. Rather surprisingly, the U.K. hasn’t been included in the itineraries despite they visited Europe twice, in 2023 and 2024. The in-the-round stage set looks spectacular, I don’t want to miss it. In particular, I haven’t seen them live since 2004.

Tough choice. Will think it over for the coming few moths.

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Do see her. I did last September. I knew her music, but turned out liking it live much more than I do her studio recordings. It surprised me how much her concert surpassed my expectations. She has some kind of intangible personal quality onstage that's hard to explain, and there's nothing conspicuous or grandiose about it... it's more low-key. There's a sincerity about her... she just seems authentic, naturally empathetic and caring and it translates into a positive connection with her audiences.

She put Blue Virginia Blues in the setlist, which I appreciated all the more after two bigger names had recently passed through town and not bothered with creating any local connection. (Pocahontas had been a local girl, but Neil Young didn't trouble himself to play it. And Alison Krauss had only recently released "Richmond on the James" on her 2025 album, but didn't play it as she stood there in Richmond and so "on the James" her feet were almost wet.)

Sierra Ferrell live just has something about her. She's lived a hard life, maybe that's been a factor in her exuding goodwill, humbly, not making a big deal about it. It just emanates off the stage. I think she's special. Of 40 concerts I went to last year, hers was top three, easy.

This coming September she's playing up the road in Charlottesville, and I'm looking forward to basking in whatever that was again.

Well description of her spirit.

Sierra Ferrell guests with Mumford & Sons on "Here" - Saturday Night Live, February 28

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bye bye johnny
Sierra Ferrell guests with Mumford & Sons on "Here" - Saturday Night Live, February 28

Nice, thanks. I was never completely sold on Mumford, and I know that they themselves had bouts of imposter syndrome. But I like this one. "Calls I didn't make"... ouch. And nearly nobody has more RL cred than Sierra.

Singing with Mumford & Sons Townes Van Zandts "If I Needed You".
Remarkable.

[youtu.be]

I like her a lot. You might also like Melissa Carper who is flying under the radar completely. She has more than enough soul and writes great songs. Here she is with Sierra when she was a bit younger: video: [youtu.be]

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Sounds fabulous. Your enthusiasm for her reminds me of that for Chappell lol. ...

There are similarities, alright. I became aware of Sierra in 2023, and Chappell precisely on Feb 15, 2024 from her Colbert (soon to be mourned) Show appearance. I then made a point of seeing Chappell in May 2024. The next month I happened to see Sierra as well, but only supporting Lukas Nelson on just three songs, bravely helping out on Willie's Outlaw Music Tour when Willie himself was sick.

July 31, 2025 Sierra played a 58-minute twelve-song set opening day of Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park. It wasn't the crowd size record-breaking femininomenon that Chappell's set had been in Lolla 2024, but in the pop-poprock-country-&hiphop music world these days, traditional Americana music isn't going to be anywhere near as big. Traditional isn't exactly my main thing either, only certain artists click with me. But Sierra is one of 'em.

Sierra's 2025 Lolla set was captured well on video, albeit in the fading light of twilight:
[youtu.be]

A local review:
[dailyillini.com]

She also has a little yodelly vocal flip like the one Chappell is a master of. I strongly suspect both women were influenced by Patsy Cline, but Sierra doesn't use yodels as much as or with the virtuosity that Chappell does.

The two women overlap in their underlying messaging that all types of people deserve to be seen and respected (my own addendum would be, "until individuals prove that they don't"). I feel it would benefit Chappell to learn to voice her views less scathingly than she sometimes does. Sierra's style when speaking out is a very warm one. But Chappell is almost a decade younger; maybe in time she will soften her sharp edges.

Of course, on the other hand Sierra has never made a 14-song masterpiece of an album, whereas Chappell has.

Six weeks after Sierra's Lollapalooza debut she played a full twenty-song concert on Brown's Island on the James River, Richmond. Tuesday, September 9, 2025 was a beautiful low humidity night in the 60s(F). Three trains came by - one during Nikki Lane's opening set. Nikki wore one of Sierra's crinoline-poofed short dresses, and being well taller than Sierra was a whole lotta leg while also almost spilling over its top . Later two trains rolled by during Sierra's headline set. You always want a train coming thru a Brown's Island concert. It's less disruptive than one would imagine, the trains slow down in the city, it's routine local color now, and the performers I've seen there have uniformly gotten a kick out of it too. Including Chappell - a train rolled through her 2024 Richmond concert as well; she and Sierra '25 played the same tracks-side stage.

Tuesday Sep 9, 2025
Richmond Brown's Island
Setlist
[www.setlist.fm]

1. I Could Drive You Crazy
2. Money Train
3. Give It Time
4. Silver Dollar
5. West Virginia Waltz
6. Why'd Ya Do It
7. Here I Am (Dolly Parton cover)
8. The Garden (Tim O’Brien cover)
9. Blue Virginia Blues (Larry Sparks cover)
10. Rosemary
11. Far Away Across the Sea
12. Why Haven't You Loved Me Yet
13. Dusty Foot
14. Years (John Anderson cover)
15. American Dreaming
16. Lesson in Leavin' (Dottie West cover) (with Nikki Lane)
17. Dollar Bill Bar
18. Fox Hunt
Encore:
19. Me and Bobby McGee (Kris Kristofferson cover)
20. In Dreams

I took a photo of the setlist and helped recreate it online. Sierra switched out one setlisted song for a new one that was hard to identify.

After I think every concert Sierra writes a thank-you to the audience in her Insta or youtube Posts, and they're more artfully and show-specifically worded than most artists' generic thank-you's. (When I read ours I made an over-baked reply. But, oh well. In an age of 1 to 4 word comments on most social media platforms I continue to write long-form (which I'm sure IORRers have never noticed before ). And I was still under Sierra's spell from her show, so no regrets)

There are fascinating & fun early Sierra vids

Two Sierras take on "Jolene" in a music festival that looks more like a tent hootenany, 2022
[youtu.be]

younger Sierra the busker

* Asheville, North Carolina 2018 [youtu.be]

* Manitou Springs, Colorado 2015 [youtu.be]

* New Orleans, Louisiana 2014 [youtu.be]

* Asheville NC 2014 plucking a gut bucket bass [youtu.be]

* Nashville(?) 2014, doing a little steppin' too [youtu.be]

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I don’t know her but reading the posts here, I’m tempted to go see her live. She plays only 4 shows in the U.K. for her forthcoming European tour. The closest location for me is Glasgow Barrowland, June 25, which clashes with Metallica at Hampden Park (sold out and I haven’t secured a ticket). Hmm…

...Metallica’s M72 World Tour has been going on since 2023. ...The in-the-round stage set looks spectacular, I don’t want to miss it. In particular, I haven’t seen them live since 2004. ...Tough choice. Will think it over for the coming few moths.

While I'm not a metal fan myself I do know how dedicated Metallica fans are. If you opt for their big concert the day of Sierra's Glasgow show, remember that as you noted, she is playing Manchester, Chelmsford and London dates too.



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I like her a lot. You might also like Melissa Carper who is flying under the radar completely. She has more than enough soul and writes great songs. Here she is with Sierra when she was a bit younger: video: [youtu.be]

Very nice! I didn't know this one.
And neither Melissa Carper.
Thank you very much for the hint!

trying to post my photo from St Augustine, FL.