Christmas albums are a staple of the holiday season and oftentimes they can be trite and obvious in their execution. It’s a pitfall Béla Fleck and the Flecktones were well aware of when they released ...

This winter, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will cross the country spreading holiday tidings with the Jingle All the Way Tour. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 20, the long-running bluegrass fusion ensemble’s ...

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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, ...