Despite playing a common instrument, celebrated banjo players Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck have kept their musical careers separate. But after performing together as a favor to a relative, the two ...

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 ...

The Colorado Symphony just announced its latest collaboration with a contemporary artist at Red Rocks: The orchestra will be joined by Béla Fleck, the sixteen-time Grammy winner who has spent four ...

Amidst the acacia trees and thatched-roof huts of a small Ugandan village, Béla Fleck sits on the ground, trademark banjo temporarily loaned out. A crowd looks on, chatting in a Swahili dialect as a ...

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Béla Fleck, the banjo virtuoso whose expansive vocabulary encompasses Earl Scruggs, Charlie Parker and Paganini, has always had an omnivorous musical appetite. Over the last 30 years, he's grooved ...

The banjoist Béla Fleck was at The New York Times headquarters on Wednesday, April 5, to perform songs and answer audience questions. Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The Times, was in the room ...

It's late on a Sunday afternoon and I've just stubbed the hell out of the two outermost toes when the phone rings. On the other end of the line is banjo player extraordinaire Bela Fleck. He's called ...