Best known for Bringing the banjo into unwelcome places, kind of like telling an inappropriate joke or farting loudly in a crowd. Otherwise Italy for dinner. Excited about The battle against tyranny ...

“With Béla, our duet has become so simpatico, and comfortable–comfortable spiritually.” Corea said in 2015. “And not meaning that we’re not adventuring musically, but I know that whatever we’re going ...

In 2024, Béla Fleck founded the BEATrio, which set the genre-bending banjo master alongside harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez for a six-night residency at Blue Note New York. Today, ...

In 2024, Béla Fleck founded the BEATrio, which set the genre-bending banjo master alongside harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez for a six-night residency at Blue Note New York. Today, ...

Fans of clawhammer-banjo player Abigail Washburn can rejoice. Not since her early days in The Sparrow Quartet have she and her banjo-strumming hubby Béla Fleck toured together, as they’re doing now – ...

Originally released in 2008 on Rounder Records, Bela Fleck' Jingle All The Way is an accurate microcosm of the deceptive whimsy the group displays on stage during the best moments of their live ...

We’ve made it to the halfway point of February and the end of another week. Again, the reward for perseverance is a healthy stack of new country, Americana, bluegrass, and Southern rock albums. With ...

For a lot of listeners, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’s 2008 Christmas album, “Jingle All the Way,” may be one of the band’s most accessible recordings. Fleck is an acknowledged master of the banjo, ...

Jingle Bells; Silent Night' Sleigh Ride; The Christmas Song; The Twelve Days of Christmas; J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio— BWV 248: # 41 “Ich will nur zu Ehren leben”; Christmas Time is Here; Linus ...

Paste Studio “On The Road” rambles on, this time to Wilkesboro, N.C., for the 36th annual MerleFest! The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features “traditional ...