First Night Boston 2014

First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and WUMB-FM 91.9 present bluegrass vocalist, mandolinist and songwriter Sierra Hull, a 2011 Berklee graduate, performing at the Berklee Performance Center at (WUMB broadcast, and wumb.org, at 7:00 Eastern).

Boundaries — age, genre or otherwise — don’t hamper an artist like Sierra Hull. As a player, a singer and a songwriter, Sierra has remarkable range, the potential to win over ears unfamiliar with Bill Monroe and give performances of broad cultural importance, as she’s done at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the National Prayer Breakfast. In May 2011, Sierra completed a two-year degree at Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full, Presidential Scholarship. Matt Glaser — head of Berklee’s American Roots Music Program — put it this way: “She has no limitations as a musician.”

First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and 89.7 WGBH present the Donald Harrison Quintet, performing at the Berklee Performance Center, kicking off NPR's annual worldwide jazz broadcast, Toast of the Nation. Eric Jackson, host of WGBH’s Eric in the Evening will be the broadcast’s master of ceremonies.


A New Orleans traditionalist, Mardi Gras Indian Chief, former Jazz Messenger, nurturer of young talent, Berklee alumnus, composer, bandleader and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison ’81 is a kind of Crescent City renaissance man; making sounds as diverse as Nouveau Swing, traditional jazz, hip-hop, Mardi Gras, and even classical music, his very own.