If you've never watched Béla Fleck's 2008 documentary film, Throw Down Your Heart, there is an excellent opportunity tonight (December 11), when it being offered as a free live stream on both Facebook and YouTube. Not only is it offered in its entirely at no charge, the screening with also include an introduction from Béla, and [...]
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from '75 years of bluegrass," we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Louisa Branscomb, originally from upstate New York, has also lived in the states of Alabama, Washington, and at her [...]
Here's another sign that we are coming to the end of the COVID-19 restrictions under which we have all been struggling this past few months. Tonight marks the final edition of the Whiskey Sour Happy Hour, which Bluegrass Today is delighted to help promote alongside producers Ed Helms and The Bluegrass Situation. Helms came up [...]
Béla Fleck gathered his inimitable soulmates at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the most bespoke spot for music in Colorado, on May 30 to present an evening of pure joy and elevation. With his fellow rocket men, Béla launched this year’s 30th anniversary tour of Béla Fleck and The Flecktones, and also surrounded himself with [...]
For the second year in a row, the International Bluegrass Music Association has awarded a scholarship to a promising young picker to attend the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck. The 2019 recipient is 16 year old G Rockwell from Bridgeport, CT, who has been playing both banjo and guitar this past 8 [...]
Béla Fleck welcomes the class at the 2018 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp - photo by Brian Swenk “Immerse yourself.” If there was one consistent theme to the inaugural Béla Fleck Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, it wasn't necessarily the technical mechanics of banjo wizardry, but more of how we expand art and passion in our conscious [...]
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the Tennessee Theater (March 24, 2018) - photo by Alisa B. Cherry It’s one thing to start your set on time. It’s quite another to begin before you’re even due onstage. By that measure then, Béla Fleck is an overachiever. His performance with wife Abigail Washburn started solo, and several [...]
Banjo legend Béla Fleck has announced his first-ever banjo workshop weekend, the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, to be held August 15-19th, 2018 at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC. Assisting will be Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson, and Mike Munford. Applications must be completed online by February 28, which much also include at 3-5 minute YouTube video [...]
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn have scheduled a series of concerts for the Nashville area in mid-December to benefit a number of regionally-based organizations that they support. Billed as Circle Round Home 2, the two banjo mavens consider it as a mini-residency on their own turf to assist agencies that do good work in the [...]
The folks at the Earl Scruggs Center have a big day planned for banjo pickers - and banjo lovers - on Saturday, October 14. They have a banjo-themed run in the morning, and a concert with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn that evening. The 8th Annual Rhythm And Roots Run begins at 8:30 a.m. at [...]
If you've never watched Béla Fleck's 2008 documentary film, Throw Down Your Heart, there is an excellent opportunity tonight (December 11), when it being offered as a free live stream on both Facebook and YouTube. Not only is it offered in its entirely at no charge, the screening with also include an introduction from Béla, and [...] 
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from '75 years of bluegrass," we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Louisa Branscomb, originally from upstate New York, has also lived in the states of Alabama, Washington, and at her [...] 
Here's another sign that we are coming to the end of the COVID-19 restrictions under which we have all been struggling this past few months. Tonight marks the final edition of the Whiskey Sour Happy Hour, which Bluegrass Today is delighted to help promote alongside producers Ed Helms and The Bluegrass Situation. Helms came up [...] 
Béla Fleck gathered his inimitable soulmates at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the most bespoke spot for music in Colorado, on May 30 to present an evening of pure joy and elevation. With his fellow rocket men, Béla launched this year’s 30th anniversary tour of Béla Fleck and The Flecktones, and also surrounded himself with [...] 
For the second year in a row, the International Bluegrass Music Association has awarded a scholarship to a promising young picker to attend the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck. The 2019 recipient is 16 year old G Rockwell from Bridgeport, CT, who has been playing both banjo and guitar this past 8 [...] 
Béla Fleck welcomes the class at the 2018 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp - photo by Brian Swenk “Immerse yourself.” If there was one consistent theme to the inaugural Béla Fleck Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, it wasn't necessarily the technical mechanics of banjo wizardry, but more of how we expand art and passion in our conscious [...] 
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the Tennessee Theater (March 24, 2018) - photo by Alisa B. Cherry It’s one thing to start your set on time. It’s quite another to begin before you’re even due onstage. By that measure then, Béla Fleck is an overachiever. His performance with wife Abigail Washburn started solo, and several [...] 
Banjo legend Béla Fleck has announced his first-ever banjo workshop weekend, the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, to be held August 15-19th, 2018 at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC. Assisting will be Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson, and Mike Munford. Applications must be completed online by February 28, which much also include at 3-5 minute YouTube video [...] 
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn have scheduled a series of concerts for the Nashville area in mid-December to benefit a number of regionally-based organizations that they support. Billed as Circle Round Home 2, the two banjo mavens consider it as a mini-residency on their own turf to assist agencies that do good work in the [...] 
The folks at the Earl Scruggs Center have a big day planned for banjo pickers - and banjo lovers - on Saturday, October 14. They have a banjo-themed run in the morning, and a concert with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn that evening. The 8th Annual Rhythm And Roots Run begins at 8:30 a.m. at [...] 