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The 25th MerleFest was a blast and I had an amazing time shooting all of the spectacular musicians. This was my 5th time at the festival, and even though I wandered around quite a bit from stage to stage, I tended to stay around The Watson Stage the most. Here is a taste of a [...]
The producers of the upcoming Porchlight Sessions film have assembled this set of outtakes from the many hours of footage they shot as a tribute to Earl Scruggs. You'll see comments and music from Chris Pandolfi, Béla Fleck and Alison Brown - not just about Scruggs, but also about the revolution he set in motion. [...]
Congratulations to Alison Krauss & Union Station for being awarded the Best Bluegrass Album at the 2012 Grammies for Paper Airplane. Well done, AKUS! Paper Airplane was also recognized as Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and Béla Fleck and Howard Levy Won Best Instrumental Composition for Life In Eleven.
Here's the incomparable Béla Fleck with a solo banjo medley of Christmas favorites recorded in a 2009 Flecktones concert in Chicago.
Tony Trischka was last week's special Master Class presenter at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. As we reported this Spring, a major anonymous donor has made it possible for Berklee to bring in top professional banjoists each semester for the benefit of the school's growing population of enrolled banjo students. Berklee professor and [...]
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones were musical guests on last night's (11/14) episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, performing in support of their new album, Rocket Science. additionally, Béla sat in with the show's band thoughout. During the program, they played Life In 11 from the record, with the "official" line up of Fleck on banjo, [...]
Andy Statman has been something of an enigma to the bluegrass world for the past 40 years. Clearly a master mandolinist with a demonstrated facility in the bluegrass idiom, he was even as a teenager drawn to incorporating elements of other musical styles into his playing with avant grade string bands like Country Cooking in [...]
The Banjo Project documentary is to be aired November 4, as part of the PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains series. Give Me the Banjo, an 80-minute film narrated by Steve Martin, will be one episode in the new mini-series, Arts Fall Festival, scheduled for national prime-time broadcast. The history of the banjo has occupied many fine minds, most notably Karen [...]
Noam Pikelny's new banjo album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, drops tomorrow (10/25), and we will run an interview with Noam at that time. But it turns out there's more to this project than meets the eye. Thanks to a new behind-the-scenes video at Funny Or Die, we learn the intriguing back story [...]
Here are some shots Dean Hoffmeyer took roaming the halls of the Nashville Convention Center and The Station Innon Wednesday (9/27).
