This winter, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will cross the country spreading holiday tidings with the Jingle All the Way Tour. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 20, the long-running bluegrass fusion ensemble’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The original lineup of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones—banjoist Béla Fleck, Howard ...

Just over 30 years ago, master banjo player Béla Fleck was asked to perform on old PBS series The Lonesome Pine Specials. Fleck was a member of bluegrass supergroup New Grass Revival at the time, but ...

A cosmic funk-jazz sound featuring the banjo, the “synth-axe drumitar” and an assortment of other instrumental oddities is the specialty of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Tucsonans will have a chance ...

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, 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 ...

Béla Fleck doesn’t discriminate. Whether an instrument is 4 inches long or 4 feet, contains two strings or 21, plugs in or runs on finger power, he’s ready to explore musical possibilities if the ...

The last time I saw a Bela Fleck performance was two summers ago at a festival in Tennessee. At this particular festival each of the stages that artists performed upon were given names like, ?Which ...

When: 9:30 p.m. June 29. What: "Newgrass" mixes bluegrass, jazz, folk and jam styles. Who: Bela Fleck on banjo; Jeff Coffin on sax; Victor Wooten on bass; and RoyEl "FutureMan" Wooten on drumitar.

This group's recipe does have some blues and bop buried in there somewhere, sure, although they also pack it with several houses' worth of kitchen sinks while twisting your mind and their fingers into ...