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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have announced an October release for their new collaboration project, Echo In The Valley. Like their previous duo project, this one will be centered around these two highly celebrated banjoists, Béla an unrivaled master of the 3 finger style, and Abby a connoisseur of clawhammer and other old time styles. [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced that husband/wife banjo duo Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn will serve as hosts for the 28th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, to be held September 28 in Raleigh, NC. This gala awards presentation serves each year as the grand finale of the organization's World Of Bluegrass convention, which [...]
The New York Times hooked up yesterday with banjo hero Béla Fleck for a live, 45-minute interview/performance which they streamed in real time online. He was joined in a tiny studio by Jon Pareles, the paper's chief pop music critic, and by viewers who shared questions via Facebook from all over the world, as submitted [...]
This interview with Béla Fleck was conducted shortly after last year's Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Jen Hughes spoke with him by phone not long after the festival, which featured a reunion set with The Flecktones. Jen talked with Béla about that, and about his plans for the immediate future. Béla Fleck’s Deering Crossfire ricocheted off the [...]
Béla Fleck, Tom Nechville, Jack Hatfield, and James McKinney at SPBGMA 2017 This reflection on the events of this past weekend's SPBGMA National Convention in Nashville is a contribution from Tom Nechville, founder of Nechville Musical Products and the designer and builder of Nechville Banjos. He put these thoughts together during the long ride back [...]
Saturday was full of options and activities for all ages. The family tent had music shows, puppet shows, face painting, and activities for kids. There were dance workshops, called dances (squares, contras, etc), and plenty of bands to dance in whatever what one desired at the Catskill Tent. Kitsy Kuykendall hosted a Bluegrass Karaoke in [...]
My fellow Americans: the state of acoustic music in our country is strong. Earlier last week in our Nation’s capital many were sitting down for principle. By week’s end, throngs were standing up in repeated ovation for American Acoustic music, recognizing it as a national treasure that should be protected and nurtured. Enthusiastic audiences had [...]
When Sierra Hull's third Rounder album was released early this year, we talked with her about her personal artistic struggles that had delayed the completion of the project, how she resolved them with the help of banjo master Béla Fleck, and how the process changed the arc of her career and brought us Weighted Mind. [...]
Like two comets, tails a-blazing, chasing each other around the galaxy, dancing, jousting, and matter mixing to create something totally anew, Béla Fleck and Chick Corea jolted the Earth further upright on its axis and stunned the Boston crowd on April 10th with their mesmerizing and otherworldly musical spectacular. It seemed all of Beantown went [...]
Somewhere in the midst of an album and EP with Abigail Washburn (with full-time touring and winning a Grammy), an album and touring with Chick Corea, performing his concerto, The Impostor, dozens of times, and being a father, the indefatigable Béla Fleck found time to write a new banjo concerto. I had the fortunate opportunity to catch [...]
