Molly Tuttle at Sony Hall: 2026

[Find the entire recap of "An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle" here. Below is an edited excerpt:]

FUV's benefit concert last November, "An Evening with The Mountain Goats and Molly Tuttle," featured a solo Tuttle, fresh off of learning about two 2026 Grammy nominations, including Americana album of the year for her pop-leaning So Long Little Miss Sunshine. (A bluegrass Grammy winner in 2023 and 2024, this year, Tuttle eventually lost those Grammys to Mavis Staples and Jon Batiste, but a nomination is always a big deal.) 

Rewinding to Sony Hall, Tuttle was in excellent spirits, despite a cancelled flight on her way to New York. With two acoustic instruments in tow, she showed everyone just why she's one of this country's foremost bluegrass guitarists. Whether flatpicking or showing off her clawhammer technique with open tuning ("manicure destroyer," she called it, laughing), Tuttle's mastery of the guitar is wondrous, her hands galloping across the body and fretboard of her custom Martin with velocity and precision.

She made The Rolling Stones "She's a Rainbow" into her own radiant statement of self and dug deep into murder ballad territory with "Rosalee," from the new album.Tuttle's clear voice and fierce mastery of the guitar is a riveting dialogue of ardor and strength,

She spoke tenderly of her dad, a bluegrass player who taught her the craft. Growing up in suburban Palo Alto, California, she became a zealous expert on a style of music saturated in the Blue Ridge misty mountains and front-porch hootenanny lore of Appalachia. 

Tuttle, who beamed as the crowd cheered on her fiery solos, thanked FUV for the support of her Grammy-nominated single "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" from So Long Little Miss Sunshine. Check out videos of that song – as well as "Dooley's Farm" and "Old Me (New Wig)."

[Recorded:11/11/25. Engineered by Jim O'Hara, produced by Meghan Suma.]