The worlds of two great musicians born in New York City will collide on February 12, 2024 when banjo legend Béla Fleck releases his new album, Rhapsody In Blue, to honor the famed late ...

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will return to the road this holiday season for the Jingle All The Way Tour. The original members — banjoist Béla Fleck, multi ...

The 19-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist and bandleader was booked to play with the National Symphony Orchestra in February. By Lars Brandle Béla Fleck is the latest artist to cancel his appearance ...

Béla Fleck, the Grammy-winning musician whose innovative career has earned him the title of "The World's Best Banjoist," turns 68 today, July 10. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Fleck ...

The original lineup of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones—banjoist Béla Fleck, Howard Levy on piano and harmonica, percussionist / drumitarist Roy “Future Man” Wooten and bassist Victor Wooten—will return ...

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) a grant to commission banjoist and composer Béla Fleck to write a composition for the New Orleans ...

Banjoist Béla Fleck canceled his upcoming shows with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. Fleck stated the venue has become "charged and political" since President Trump became ...

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 ...

For someone whose parents named him after the composers Bartok, Webern and Janácek, it took Bela Fleck a relatively long time to try his hand at classical music. The New York City native had become ...

Béla Fleck is the latest artist to cancel his appearance at the Kennedy Center, citing the "charged and political" atmosphere that now hangs over the institution. The 19-time Grammy Award-winning ...