Just over 30 years ago, master banjo player Béla Fleck was asked to perform on old PBS series The Lonesome Pine Specials. Fleck was a member of bluegrass supergroup New Grass Revival at the time, but ...

Bluegrass maestro Béla Fleck announced he and his beloved band, the Flecktones, will reunite for the first time in four years. The ensemble’s reunion will see them perform four shows this June. The ...

In 1988, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones debuted as a wholly original hybrid. Fleck was an ace banjo picker with established bluegrass bonafides. Big Hassle MediaHear Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, ...

The thing about playing the jazz banjo is it takes awhile for people to realize that you're not kidding, Bela Fleck said in a recent interview. "When I was in high school I got two reactions from ...

eOne Music is excited to announce the May 17 release of Grammy Award-winning Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' new album, Rocket Science. For the first time since 1991, pianist/ harmonica player Howard ...

Nobody will likely accuse Bela Fleck of standing still musically. Even though he and the original Flecktones lineup are touring for the first time in almost two decades, consider this tour and the ...

The last time I saw a Bela Fleck performance was two summers ago at a festival in Tennessee. At this particular festival each of the stages that artists performed upon were given names like, ?Which ...

Elvis Presley's hip gyrations are no longer the salacious and censorable offense they once were. Those moves have become the very embodiment of comfy kitsch, because it's human nature to get used to ...

When: 9:30 p.m. June 29. What: "Newgrass" mixes bluegrass, jazz, folk and jam styles. Who: Bela Fleck on banjo; Jeff Coffin on sax; Victor Wooten on bass; and RoyEl "FutureMan" Wooten on drumitar.

Named Bass Player magazine’s “Bass Player of the Year” three years in a row, Wooten has also been involved with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and SMV (with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller), as well ...

He’s won over a dozen Grammys in bands from New Grass Revival to The Flecktones. This Saturday, banjo extraordinaire Béla Fleck performs live at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, reuniting with mandolin ...

Bela Fleck, an acknowledged master of the banjo, and his dizzyingly talented sidekicks filled the Wiltern LG Theater with such arrestingly textured music for nearly two hours Nov. 22 that it's hard to ...