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 ...

There is a historic resonance in the timing of the reunion tour of Béla Fleck and the original Flecktones so soon after the death of Earl Scruggs, his original inspiration, in late March. Scruggs was ...

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 ...

Multiple Grammy winner continues expanding instrument. No modern musician has done more to expand the scope of the banjo over the past 46 years than Béla Fleck. The 15-time Grammy winner, performing ...

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 ...

A few years ago, banjo master Bela Fleck set out to explore the birthplace of his instrument: Africa. From Mali to Gambia, Fleck collected songs and stories. He returned with an album's worth of ...

This video is no longer available. He’s won over a dozen Grammys in bands from New Grass Revival to The Flecktones. This Saturday, banjo extraordinaire Béla Fleck performs live at Wolf Trap in Vienna, ...

On the day before Bela Fleck started high school, his grandfather gave the 15-year-old a banjo as a present, as it was an instrument that he always seemed interested in. "I had first heard it on 'The ...

Scrooges beware. You won't be able to resist smiling at the holiday spirit that banjo great Béla Fleck and his Flecktones uncork on Jingle All the Way. In fact, you will be ear-to-ear grinning. And it ...