This interview was conducted in 2015: Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck may be the undisputed royalty of the banjo world, but ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Very few artists can be called revolutionary; trumpeter Miles Davis, composers Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, and ...
It's a long way from India to Broadway, but Bela Fleck makes the journey in high style for Rhapsody in Blue. It follows the altogether exotic As We Speak (Thirty ...
Howard Levy will sit out Béla Fleck & The Flecktones' 'Jingle All the Way' tour, with Sierra Hull to fill in on select dates.
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Appearing with the Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday evening July 6, Béla Fleck surprised the Blossom Music Center crowd not so much by the level of his playing — virtuosic as ...