On Sunday evening, 15-time Grammy award-winning banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck took the stage of Longwood Gardens’ Open Air Theatre alongside his touring bluegrass band. Fleck and his bandmates are in the ...
Today, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain announced a new album featuring Rakesh Chaurasia titled As We Speak, which is set to release on May 12 via Thirty Tigers. In celebration of the ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Alan Cumming & Ari Shapiro, banjoist Béla Fleck and his My Bluegrass Heart Band, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and comedian Ryan Hamilton will perform at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts ...
The Grammy-winning banjoists welcome fellow artists including Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne and more on the new ...
Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo concerts he regularly engages in with wife Abigail Washburn, the setting ...
For Béla Fleck, the joy of playing music is the ability to be part of a dialogue. As both a speaker and unbiased ear, the celebrated banjo virtuoso’s approach to music as a conversation holds a ...
Blending Indian and Western classical music with bluegrass is like talking among friends. “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” ...
Béla Fleck is one busy musician. The 16-time Grammy Award-winner banjoist still runs his 20-year-plus old project Béla Fleck & the Flecktones with bassist Victor Wooten, tours in a bluegrass banjo duo ...
Marcus Roberts is a pianist known for his proficiency in early piano styles like stride and ragtime, seasoned with a bit of expressive dissonance à la Thelonious Monk. Béla Fleck is a banjoist known ...
Béla Fleck has unlocked the intent behind his impending project. The decorated musician shared that his latest work revolves around George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The impending set functions as a ...