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Béla Fleck presented the world premiere of his Concerto for Banjo with the Nashville Symphony this month at Schermerhorn Symphony Centre. This is one of the first ever concertos written for the instrument. Fleck played the piece on his vintage 1937 mahogany Gibson Mastertone banjo. The Concerto marks a significant new departure for Fleck, who called [...]
Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer join Jeffrey Kahane and Colorado Symphony Banjo player Béla Fleck never ceases to amaze. Concertgoers in Denver Colorado will experience the thrills of a world premiere piano concerto by Kenji Bunch, as well as the artistry of banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck, tabla legend Zakir Hussain and double bass [...]
Steve Martin received an award at the music industry’s most prestigeous event, the Grammy Awards. Steve Martin’s The Crow: News Songs For the Five-String Banjo was named Best Bluegrass Album. Other nominees in this category were Bryan Sutton and friends Almost Live, Rhonda Vincent’s Destination Life, Jim Lauderdale’s Could We Get Any Closer and Michael [...]
Bela Fleck’s Africa Project – The Arts Centre, Melbourne The wonderful Bela Fleck’s African Project featuring Oumou Sangar, in the country for Bluesfest over Easter 2010, will play a theatre sideshow at Hamer Hall on Thursday 8th April. New York City native Bela Fleck is regularly considered the premier banjo player in the world. He [...]
At this year’s Redland’s Bluegrass Festival, I got to spend some time with Bellbird Banjo’s founder Peter Nahyusen. I got to hear first hand of his big news that Bela Fleck had recently purchased one of his Bellbird banjos. Not only had Bela had bought one, but that he was using it in many of [...]
Bela Fleck And The Flecktones perform at The Basement. Mike Hall in Victoria has alerted us to a repeat broadcast this week on ABC Television’s Live At The Basement. This week’s program will feature Bela Fleck and The Flecktones on ABC1 at 11:25pm this Thu., 06 Aug 2009. Also showing on ABC1 at 11:30pm on [...]
Rounder Records recently released Bela Fleck’s Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions. They have now released an interview with Bela discussing the project with Rounder Producer and VP of A&R, Scott Billington,: – Scott Billington: This is such an ambitious project collaborations with musicians from Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, and Madagascar. [...]
Bela Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart Rounder Records has announced the release of Bela Fleck’s Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions to be released on 3rd March 09. Throw Down Your Heart chronicles banjo virtuoso and 9 time Grammy award winner Bela Fleck’s musical journey to Africa to explore the [...]
B̩la Fleck, often considered the premiere banjo player in the world, has made a name for himself as a virtuoso instrumentalist unbounded by genre. His band The Flecktones РVictor Wooten on electric bass, Jeff Coffin on sax and flute, and Future Man on percussion Рare equally talented and adventurous as Fleck himself, and [...]
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