Banjo player and composer Béla Fleck. Legendary banjo player and composer Béla Fleck has been a cross-genre leader for decades. Brooke Knoll speaks with Béla about first taking the banjo into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo ...

Bela Fleck will present the world premiere of his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra— one of the first ever written for the instrument—with the Nashville Symphony on September 22-24 at Schermerhorn ...

A banjo and a symphony orchestra don’t sound in tune when you think about it. When the guest performer is the world’s premiere banjo virtuoso, Bèla Fleck, it’s in perfect harmony. The 18-time ...

Béla Fleck has announced the annual return of his Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, which will be held at Brevard Music Center in Brevard, N.C., from August 12-17, 2025. Occurring for the sixth time, the ...

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced nine new programs for this summer's Blossom Music Festival that range from classical favorites by Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to pop concerts featuring "An ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

What: Bela Fleck and Brooklyn Rider perform. Where: Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek. When: Friday, Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $88. More information: Visit ...

The opening notes of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” are quintessentially cinematic. The lilt of a seductive clarinet begins a recognizable birdsong. A brassy, deep trombone responds. The two ...

Béla Fleck: How To Write A Banjo Concerto follows banjo trailblazer Béla Fleck through one of his most challenging musical journeys so far: into the world of the Symphony Orchestra. Béla is ...

Spending an hour on the phone with Béla Fleck is akin to climbing aboard a bullet train. One minute, you’re surveying the duo concerts he regularly engages in with wife Abigail Washburn, the setting ...