After a brief dalliance with the piano and violin as a young child, things shifted gear for Molly dramatically when her father presented her with a Baby Taylor when she was eight years old. He showed her some chords and melodies, not really expecting the guitar to prove different from her previous attempts at playing music.
“But with the guitar, I was kind of interested in it,” she says. “After about a year I got really, really into practising and learning new tunes, and it became really fun. Then I started singing a couple of years after that, and playing banjo, but guitar was my first musical thing that I learned.”
Since then, she has taken home trophies at the International Bluegrass Music Association for Guitar Player Of The Year in both 2017 and 2018, and won the 2018 Instrumentalist Of The Year at the Americana Music Honors.
Do you come from a musical family?
“Yes, my dad plays music. My mum didn’t play much music, but my dad’s a music teacher for a living. After I started playing, my two younger brothers wanted to start playing instruments, too. So eventually we all played and then we played together.”
What were the first tunes that you learned?
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