Béla Fleck took the Carnegie stage and brought that hallowed hall to a place I am sure it has never quite been before. Smiley, tie-dyed festivarians joined the bejeweled Manhattan proper to celebrate something undeniably near and dear to America's heart: bluegrass music. That night, it was presented in the finest hall in all the land and [...]
Applications are now being accepted to attend the 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, founded and curated by Béla Fleck. This year's camp will be held August 17-21 in Brevard, NC. Fleck will be teaching during the camp, alongside his hand-picked faculty consisting of Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson, and Ryan Cavanaugh. Unlike most other weekend [...]
For years banjo players have drooled over Béla Fleck's 1937 RB-75 conversion banjo, the one that he has played since 1982. It's a beautiful instrument, and helped cement his sound into every banjo picker's brain through his landmark 1988 release, Drive. We also saw it in his hands through the New Grass Revival period of [...]
Béla Fleck has released a live music video for another of the tracks for his current project, My Bluegrass Heart, a double album primarily consisting if his new compositions in a more bluegrass vein. The two-disc set finds him in collaboration with a set of true bluegrass superstars, with support from Sierra Hull, Bryan Sutton, [...]
After a career that's taken him from abject grassicana with the New Grass Revival to jazz, fusion, funk, classical, and world music alike, Béla Fleck returns to his first love with his first fully realized bluegrass album in some 20 years, My Bluegrass Heart. All instrumental and boasting an outstanding array of guest artists — [...]
Béla Fleck has dropped a second single from his landmark, 2-disc project, My Bluegrass Heart, expected September 10 on Renew Records. The album finds this genre-bending banjoist back in the bluegrass, supported by a who's who of top players, both grey-haired veterans and young whippersnappers alike. Guests include David Grisman, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Mark Schatz, [...]
Béla Fleck is certainly in the news this week. A few days ago we had the first music from his upcoming all star album, My Bluegrass Heart, and now we can share a video he created with Jamie Barton for the San Francisco Opera and their In Song series. Of course, Mr. Fleck needs no [...]
Banjo maestro Béla Fleck started his professional music career in bluegrass music, and though he has swept through many other regions of contemporary music over the years - jazz, funk, classical, and world music among them - at heart, he still retains a special fondness for the sound of bluegrass banjo. And he has a [...]
Here's a Christmas treat for banjo lovers everywhere. Three of your favorite pickers will be doing a livestream concert tomorrow night (12/23) on Facebook, billed as the Bearded Banjo Santas Holiday Hang with Alan Munde, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka. It will be broadcast via Facebook Live starting at 7:00 p.m. (EST) Wednesday evening. The [...]
Béla Fleck took the Carnegie stage and brought that hallowed hall to a place I am sure it has never quite been before. Smiley, tie-dyed festivarians joined the bejeweled Manhattan proper to celebrate something undeniably near and dear to America's heart: bluegrass music. That night, it was presented in the finest hall in all the land and [...] 
Applications are now being accepted to attend the 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, founded and curated by Béla Fleck. This year's camp will be held August 17-21 in Brevard, NC. Fleck will be teaching during the camp, alongside his hand-picked faculty consisting of Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson, and Ryan Cavanaugh. Unlike most other weekend [...] 
For years banjo players have drooled over Béla Fleck's 1937 RB-75 conversion banjo, the one that he has played since 1982. It's a beautiful instrument, and helped cement his sound into every banjo picker's brain through his landmark 1988 release, Drive. We also saw it in his hands through the New Grass Revival period of [...] 
Béla Fleck has released a live music video for another of the tracks for his current project, My Bluegrass Heart, a double album primarily consisting if his new compositions in a more bluegrass vein. The two-disc set finds him in collaboration with a set of true bluegrass superstars, with support from Sierra Hull, Bryan Sutton, [...] 
Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021 - photo © Dave Hollender Our friend Dave Hollender was at the 2021 FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA last month, and captured some great photos of Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart show. Performing with Béla on the show were Sierra Hull on mandolin, Bryan Sutton on [...] 
After a career that's taken him from abject grassicana with the New Grass Revival to jazz, fusion, funk, classical, and world music alike, Béla Fleck returns to his first love with his first fully realized bluegrass album in some 20 years, My Bluegrass Heart. All instrumental and boasting an outstanding array of guest artists — [...] 
Béla Fleck has dropped a second single from his landmark, 2-disc project, My Bluegrass Heart, expected September 10 on Renew Records. The album finds this genre-bending banjoist back in the bluegrass, supported by a who's who of top players, both grey-haired veterans and young whippersnappers alike. Guests include David Grisman, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Mark Schatz, [...] 
Béla Fleck is certainly in the news this week. A few days ago we had the first music from his upcoming all star album, My Bluegrass Heart, and now we can share a video he created with Jamie Barton for the San Francisco Opera and their In Song series. Of course, Mr. Fleck needs no [...] 
Banjo maestro Béla Fleck started his professional music career in bluegrass music, and though he has swept through many other regions of contemporary music over the years - jazz, funk, classical, and world music among them - at heart, he still retains a special fondness for the sound of bluegrass banjo. And he has a [...] 
Here's a Christmas treat for banjo lovers everywhere. Three of your favorite pickers will be doing a livestream concert tomorrow night (12/23) on Facebook, billed as the Bearded Banjo Santas Holiday Hang with Alan Munde, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka. It will be broadcast via Facebook Live starting at 7:00 p.m. (EST) Wednesday evening. The [...] 