Dick Hull Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Banjo & Vocals

Dick is a multi-instrumentalist who has played guitar and electric bass in rock, commercial, jazz, and dance bands, and acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and bass in folk and bluegrass groups. He has performed at MerleFest six years, with such musicians as mandolinist Emory Lester and guitarist François Vola, singer/songwriters Bob Sinclair and Mary Huckins, and has accompanied Mando-Mania (including Chris Thiele, Jimmy Gaudreau, Ronnie McCoury and others). At Green Acres Music Hall he performed with banjo virtuoso, Bill Keith. As the original bassist with the François Vola Group (jazz), he appears on their 1996 CD "Old World—New World", on the RDC label. He has been a member of the faculty of Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory since 1987, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Donald and Helen Schort School of Mathematics and Computing Sciences.  (Visit Dick's Lenoir-Rhyne page.)

He currently performs regularly with "Musica Nostra", "Centerpiece",  and "Something Else".  Check Dick's full performance schedule.  And when he gets a chance he plays some bocce (boccie?) with a championship team captained by Keith Smith.

You might also enjoy this collection of photos of well-known performers from backstage at MerleFest and a few other places.

Other recent musical activities the Lenoir-Rhyne College Jazz Ensemble Outside the Law - mandolin, guitar, bass & banjo (with Ellis Aycock, Fred Barbour, Deloy Oberlin & Joel Keebler) Misc. Jazz performances with Charlie Ellis, Rick Cline and Bill Colvard Rock & Roll with the Last Chance Band - bass & guitar Bob Sinclair and Victrola Club Hickory Area Theater - Cotton Patch Gospel (Foothills Performing Arts) - guitar, mandolin, banjo - Cotton Patch Gospel (Green Room, Newton, NC) - guitar, banjo - Robber Bridegroom (Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers) - guitar, mandolin - Fiddler on the Roof (S. Caldwell H.S.) - bass - Mame (Foothills Performing Arts) - banjo (and a little acting) - Grease (Hickory H.S.) - guitar - Once Upon a Mattress (Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers) - bass - The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Morganton, NC) - guitar - Grease (Hudson, NC) - guitar