Hello!

My name is Daniel Ullom and I’m a musician based out of Asheville, NC. I play mandolin in addition to guitar and bass. I’ve been performing professionally for over a decade and have toured all over the United States. Most of my work revolves around traditional bluegrass and old-time music, but you can see for yourself by checking out the video and projects pages here on my website. I have two solo albums Happy Birthday Dewey! (2024) and The Swannanoa Sessions (2022), both of which you can listen to here.

My family is from West Texas, but we moved to the Yakima Valley in Washington state, where I grew up surrounded by dry foothills and apple orchards. Some of my earliest memories involve playing back-up mandolin for my dad, which triggered a life-long obsession with the instrument. When I was a teenager, a neighbor discovered that I played mandolin and invited me  over to my first bluegrass party. It was a potluck-style picking party, the first of many to come. The inclusive and empowering culture surrounding the music instantly hooked me, and I was soon obsessively learning about traditional bluegrass and old-time music.

I moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, which placed me in the middle of a bustling music scene. Through the help of some great mentors and friends, I eventually found myself playing music full-time and teaching lessons. The day after graduating college, I jumped in a tour van.

After a few amazing years in the Seattle, I decided to pack up and move all the way across the continent to Asheville, North Carolina to join a vibrant scene of old-time and bluegrass musicians. It’s been an enormous privilege to live in the mountains and in a place that’s been a hotspot for this music for decades, if not centuries. Asheville has mostly been my home ever since, although I had some brief stints in Puyallup, WA and Lancaster, PA.

If you’d like to know more about me and my music, send me a message at ulohdan@gmail.com