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 ...

For the first time in over two decades, Fleck has returned to the genre with My Bluegrass Heart, an ambitious double album. Béla Fleck goes back to bluegrass, his first musical love Béla Fleck is ...

Béla Fleck, a name synonymous with the words genius and banjo, has never let a thing like genre define his musical output. From bluegrass to country to jazz and back to bluegrass Fleck is constantly ...

The International Bluegrass Music Association has officially unveiled the nominees for its 35th Annual Bluegrass Awards, at once elevating the genre’s present figureheads and canonizing the legacy of ...

Known for genre-jumping creativity and virtuosic banjo playing, Béla Fleck brings “BEATrio” to the Gillioz Theatre on ...

For Béla Fleck, the joy of playing music is the ability to be part of a dialogue. As both a speaker and unbiased ear, the celebrated banjo virtuoso’s approach to music as a conversation holds a ...

Blending Indian and Western classical music with bluegrass is like talking among friends. “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” ...

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Béla Fleck is bringing his new Latin jazz supergroup, BEATrio, to McCain Auditorium later this month. Fleck is an eighteen-time Grammy Award-winning banjo player, famous for his groups Béla Fleck & ...