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 ...

The Newton Theatre will welcome two acclaimed acts in early 2026: Jay & The Americans on Saturday, January 24, 2026, and Béla ...

Blending Indian and Western classical music with bluegrass is like talking among friends. “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (ANI) – In a celebration of classical music, the As We Speak India tour has been announced, featuring Grammy-winning icons Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Chaurasia, Bela Fleck, and Edgar Meyer.

Today, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain announced a new album featuring Rakesh Chaurasia titled As We Speak, which is set to release on May 12 via Thirty Tigers. In celebration of the ...

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 ...

Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 15 Grammys in nine different fields, including ...

Hailed as the “king and queen of banjo” by Paste Magazine, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn present the world premiere of “Dreams in Flight” with the Colorado Symphony at Vilar Performing Arts Center ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A concert featuring four Grammy-winning artists will be held at the Ulster Performing Arts Center on Friday, June 14. Musicians Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, and Rakesh ...

For someone whose parents named him after the composers Bartok, Webern and Janácek, it took Bela Fleck a relatively long time to try his hand at classical music. The New York City native had become ...

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 ...

Today, renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain, banjo legend Béla Fleck, double bassist Edgar Meyer and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia announced a new album titled As We Speak, which will release May 12 ...