Béla Fleck, the banjo visionary in groups like New Grass Revival and his own Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, will release his first bluegrass album in more than two decades. My Bluegrass Heart finds ...

Béla Fleck came away the big winner at Thursday night’s 33rd annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards in Raleigh, North Carolina, winning Album of the Year for My Bluegrass Heart. The ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Béla Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and sound of the banjo ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there's anything Bela Fleck finds hard to resist, it's the chance to play with truly unique musicians. And that's something he got to do plenty during the making of his new album and documentary, ...

Fleck, Meyer, Hussain and Chaurasia’s album “As We Speak” was released in May. It is a hands-across-the-water collaboration that brings together Western and Indian classical music, bluegrass, jazz, ...

A 15-time Grammy Award winner, banjo master Béla Fleck excels in such a dizzying array of styles — from bluegrass, folk and jazz to classical, country and World Music — that it was fitting when he ...

Three of bluegrass’ premier instrumentalists – banjoist Bela Fleck, mandolinist (and fiddler) Sam Bush and Dobro man Jerry Douglas lit up the stage (and proverbial marquee) at Rose Music Center at the ...

Bela Fleck might have had a perfectly wonderful career in bluegrass music. He began picking the five-string at age 15, after being bitten by the bug with "Dueling Banjos." But the New-York-bred Fleck ...