This interview was conducted in 2015: Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck may be the undisputed royalty of the banjo world, but ...
Best known for Bringing the banjo into unwelcome places, kind of like telling an inappropriate joke or farting loudly in a crowd. Otherwise Italy for dinner. Excited about The battle against tyranny ...
For a lot of listeners, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’s 2008 Christmas album, “Jingle All the Way,” may be one of the band’s most accessible recordings. Fleck is an acknowledged master of the banjo, ...
Béla Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and sound of the banjo through a remarkable legacy that has taken him all over the musical map. Rhythm, Raga & Rhapsody will celebrate the music of ...
Christmas albums are a staple of the holiday season and oftentimes they can be trite and obvious in their execution. It’s a ...
Paste Studio “On The Road” rambles on, this time to Wilkesboro, N.C., for the 36th annual MerleFest! The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features “traditional ...
Banjo player and composer Béla Fleck. Legendary banjo player and composer Béla Fleck has been a cross-genre leader for decades. Brooke Knoll speaks with Béla about first taking the banjo into ...
In 2024, Béla Fleck founded the BEATrio, which set the genre-bending banjo master alongside harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez for a six-night residency at Blue Note New York. Today, ...
In 2024, Béla Fleck founded the BEATrio, which set the genre-bending banjo master alongside harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez for a six-night residency at Blue Note New York. Today, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. “With Béla, our duet has become so simpatico, and comfortable–comfortable ...
Best known for Bringing the banjo into unwelcome places, kind of like telling an inappropriate joke or farting loudly in a crowd. Really want to be in Would love to be in Nashville, Tennessee—home of ...