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 ...

US banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck is to appear in concert in Estonia next year, nearly 30 years since he last played here.

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 ...

Before Béla Fleck came along, the banjo was mostly relegated to the world of roots music. But the New York City-born banjo virtuoso changed the world’s perception of the stringed instrument, primarily ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music. Fleck will be the featured artist with the Louisiana ...

Béla Fleck is perhaps the most famous banjo player in the world. He's taken that instrument out of its folk and bluegrass traditions to play pretty much any kind of music: from jazz and pop to ...

The banjo is one of the most American of instruments, a staple of bluegrass and folk. But it’s actually African in origin, and it can cut across many categories of music, no matter the genre. That is ...

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 ...

Bela Fleck might have had a perfectly wonderful career in bluegrass music. He began picking the five-string at age 15, after being bitten by the bug with "Dueling Banjos." But the New-York-bred Fleck ...

World of Bluegrass has arrived in Raleigh, and everyone who cares is finding their own way into the action. At Quail Ridge Books on Sunday, for instance, I spied a window display that welcomed members ...

Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck will lead his band of musicians on tour for its new album “Rocket Science,” the first recording by members of the original group in two decades. The ...