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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will perform songs from their Christmas album at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre on Dec. 6.

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 ...

We’ve made it to the halfway point of February and the end of another week. Again, the reward for perseverance is a healthy stack of new country, Americana, bluegrass, and Southern rock albums. With ...

Two wildly different pop veterans from England, an orchestrator from New Zealand, a sagely folk ambassador from Canada, a soul adventure linking Detroit to the deep South, an acoustic journey from ...

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 ...

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 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 ...