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"In just over a year, the Lumineers have gone from playing open-mic nights in Colorado to performing for millions of people at gigs for Saturday Night Live and, come Sunday, The Grammys. You'll undoubtedly recognize the anthemic \"Ho Hey\" from repeated radio-play and countless TV commercials, but their entire self-titled debut album is worth a listen. Need proof? It earned them a nomination for Best New Artist, an award that's gone to major players like Adele and Bon Iver in the past.\n\nWe talked to Neyla Pekarek, the band's twenty-six-year-old cellist about the Lumineers' rise to fame, who she'd like to meet at this weekend's awards show, and how it feels to be the only girl on the road with a bunch of dudes.\n\nWhat's it like to be the lone girl on tour with an otherwise all-guy band?\n\n \"It's not so bad. There are five us in the band and then five crew members, all male. I wouldn't be able to say I could do it with anyone, but with these guys, it's okay.\"\n\nWhat did you do before joining the Lumineers?\n\n \"I have a teaching degree to teach music. I always wanted to be a choir teacher. I met the guys shortly after I graduated and I was looking for something to keep me busy before landing a teaching job. I answered a Craigslist ad, which is something I'd never do. I was feeling reckless, I guess. I'd never even been in a band. I had taken a break from playing the cello in college and had just started playing it again. I was actually substitute teaching, which was the perfect job to come back to after touring, until March of last year. That was actually one of the band's main goals, to just make music for a living.\"\n\nHow long have you played the cello?\n\n \"I started playing when I was nine. I played in the school orchestra. I don't even know why I was drawn to it, but it was something that came pretty naturally.\"\n\nYou always look adorable on stage. Where do you find your outfits?\n\n \"It's really difficult\u2014always a meltdown moment. I do a little bit of thrift store shopping, and I love Modcloth. We've developed a really great relationship. It's funny because I've just been introduced to this concept of a stylist and I just want to dress myself!\"\n\nAny idea what you'll wear to the Grammys?\n\n \"I don't know yet. I was just talking to my manager today and had to tell him to stop sending me pages and pages of gowns! It's a lot of pressure to please designers. I just want to look like me.\"\n\nWhat's this last year been like for the band?\n\n \"A whirlwind. It's hard to wrap my mind around everything that's happened in such a short amount of time. It's really crazy. We took the majority of January off, which was the biggest break we'd had in about a year. Now we're on the road until December\u2014sixty two days straight\u2014but we're feeling pretty refreshed.\"\n\nWhen can we expect some new music?\n\n \"I think that will be down the road a little bit. It took a really long time to write the first record, and a lot of people are just now starting to hear the it. But we are writing a little bit here and there.\"\n\nWho are you most excited to meet at the Grammys?\n\n \"If I crossed paths with Jack White, I wouldn't be mad. We've played many festivals with him, and I've tried to sneak into his shows and always got denied. I think he's a really interesting guy. He's an iconic musician, but also very down-to-earth.\"\n\nWhat's been a highlight of the year, other the Grammys?\n\n \"Each show we're like, 'Oh my god, it just can't get any better than this!' And then it does. SNL was definitely a highlight because it's such an iconic thing to do. That was really neat. We also played a hometown show at Red Rocks. It was a huge show, but all of our friends and family were there and when we looked out into the audience, we could pick out their faces.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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