Just over 30 years ago, master banjo player Béla Fleck was asked to perform on old PBS series The Lonesome Pine Specials. Fleck was a member of bluegrass supergroup New Grass Revival at the time, but ...

The last time I saw a Bela Fleck performance was two summers ago at a festival in Tennessee. At this particular festival each of the stages that artists performed upon were given names like, ?Which ...

Bela Fleck, an acknowledged master of the banjo, and his dizzyingly talented sidekicks filled the Wiltern LG Theater with such arrestingly textured music for nearly two hours Nov. 22 that it's hard to ...

Nobody will likely accuse Bela Fleck of standing still musically. Even though he and the original Flecktones lineup are touring for the first time in almost two decades, consider this tour and the ...

Last night, Circles Around the Sun turned up for its second appearance at FloydFest in Check, Va. The band’s initial stage time occurred on Wednesday, in line with the onset of the festivities, July ...

Incomparable banjo ace Bela Fleck is returning to Charlottesville on Sunday night with the original lineup of his longstanding experimental jazz fusion group, the Flecktones. While the band spent the ...

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a Dec. 1 show by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at the Paramount Theater. The original lineup of the Flecktones — banjo innovator Fleck, Howard Levy on ...

As if a fine jewel placed in its setting, Bela Fleck's appearance with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra took place at the very center of the two-hour program on September 27th. Considering this occasion ...

This group's recipe does have some blues and bop buried in there somewhere, sure, although they also pack it with several houses' worth of kitchen sinks while twisting your mind and their fingers into ...

Never mind the 11 Grammy nominations and seven trophies. Everybody knows that Grammy means “endorsement by a bunch of conservative old farts” in Japanese. For musicians, the ultimate compliment is to ...

When: 9:30 p.m. June 29. What: "Newgrass" mixes bluegrass, jazz, folk and jam styles. Who: Bela Fleck on banjo; Jeff Coffin on sax; Victor Wooten on bass; and RoyEl "FutureMan" Wooten on drumitar.

Even though their leader plays the banjo, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones function as a small jazz combo. On their 2000 studio album, "Outbound," however, the quartet brought in so many guest musicians ...