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What a tough gig... Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer are touring in Hawaii, and we are all invited to join them today - in the cyber sense of the word. Their live show in Honolulu at the Road Runner Music Hall will be broadcast live by KSSK, starting at 4:00 p.m. (EDT) this [...]
The Melody Of Rhythm - Triple Concerto & Music For Trio, is the name of a new collaboration CD released today (9/25) on E1 Music (formerly Koch Records). It features B?©la Fleck on banjo, Edgar Meyer on bass and Zakir Hussain on the tabla. The are seven pieces of new music, but the album is [...]
Béla Fleck made another of his periodic visits to The Berklee College Of Music in Boston last week, a visit chronicled on the school's web site. He was in Boston as a part of the publicity tour for his documentary film, Throw Down Your Heart, a date which coincided nicely with the official kickoff of [...]
Almost Live, the latest CD from flatpicker supreme Bryan Sutton, is out today (7/14) on Sugar Hill Records. It is a set of ten songs and tunes featuring Bryan in the studio with many of the artists with whom he has performed in recent years. Punch Brothers make an appearance (sans regular guitarist Chris Eldridge) [...]
Bryan Sutton is on everyone's short list of top flatpick guitarists, something that has made him Nashville's #1 call for recording and short term tour work. This has given him a stable career and a fairly normal home life, by most professional musicians' standards. But it also means that his many admirers have precious little [...]
Béla Fleck and his filmmaker brother, Sascha Paladino, were interviewed recently on the ReelzChannel, a web site for serious movie buffs. They discussed their new film, Throw Down Your Heart, the documentary film about the making of Béla's new CD by the same name. This is the album featuring music Fleck recorded on his trip [...]
Béla Fleck will be the guest this afternoon (6/4) on World Cafe with David Dye originating from WXPN in Philadelphia, PA. He will talk about Throw Down Your Heart, his current CD release on Rounder, and the documentary film by the same name, both of which chronicle Fleck's musical journey of discovery through Western Africa [...]
Our beloved five string banjo is getting its props this week from the jazz world, with both the venerable Down Beat magazine and AllAboutJazz.com giving space to prominent banjo jazzers. Down Beat has Béla Fleck on the cover of its June issue, on newsstands now, with an article by Geoffrey Himes. The piece looks at [...]
The BBC has a terrific slide show with commentary online about Béla Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart project, which has resulted in both an audio CD release and a documentary film by that name. The CD and film serve as a chronicle of Fleck's 2005 journey to West Africa to learn more about the people [...]
Béla Fleck will be an in-studio guest today (4/9) on the Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU FM). He will talk about the African roots of today's modern five string banjo, his journey of discovery to west Africa in 2005, and Throw Down Your Heart, the film and audio CD that captured his African musical collaborations. The [...]
