What: Bela Fleck and Brooklyn Rider perform. Where: Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek. When: Friday, Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $88. More information: Visit ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Béla Fleck has announced the annual return of his Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, which will be held at Brevard Music Center in Brevard, N.C., from August 12-17, 2025. Occurring for the sixth time, the ...

On Oct. 4, Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck displayed jaw-dropping virtuosity in his performance as soloist in “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a packed Music ...

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

For all of the instrument's American ubiquity, there just have not been all that many star banjo players. If you're a bluegrass geek, you probably know dozens of them. But for the rest of us, it's a ...

Fleck returns to his bluegrass roots on a new album, which is dedicated to Tony Rice and Chick Corea. Mary Roach researched animal misbehaviors... Fresh Air Weekend: Banjo Player Béla Fleck; The Weird ...