Béla Fleck's Bluegrass Happening in Grand Rapids, MI (6/27/22) - photo © Bryan Bolea Photographer Bryan Bolea was on hand when Béla Fleck brought his Bluegrass Happening Tour to the Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapid, MI. The tour included
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Béla Fleck talks about his Bluegrass Happening
Everybody look what’s going down! Straight off the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Béla Fleck grabbed his all-star My Bluegrass Heart band and teamed up with best buds, Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas, and their bands to create happenings at special spots around
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In Song series from San Francisco Opera up for Webby Award
A good many readers enjoyed the video produced last summer by the San Francisco Opera which featured banjoist supreme Béla Fleck and operatic mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. It was one of several collaboration projects commissioned by SFO for a series they
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2022 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album
Earlier this afternoon in Las Vegas The Grammy Premiere Ceremony was held, announcing the bulk of the 86 awards to be distributed during the 2022 Grammys. These are the proverbial "Awards given earlier in the day," which are often referenced
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Béla Fleck in Carnegie Hall? Be still My Bluegrass Heart!
Béla Fleck took the Carnegie stage and brought that hallowed hall to a place I am sure it has never quite been before. Smiley, tie-dyed festivarians joined the bejeweled Manhattan proper to celebrate something undeniably near and dear to America's heart:
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Applications open for Béla Fleck’s 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp
Applications are now being accepted to attend the 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, founded and curated by Béla Fleck. This year's camp will be held August 17-21 in Brevard, NC. Fleck will be teaching during the camp, alongside his hand-picked faculty
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Béla Fleck Bluegrass Heart Gold Tone banjo on its way
For years banjo players have drooled over Béla Fleck's 1937 RB-75 conversion banjo, the one that he has played since 1982. It's a beautiful instrument, and helped cement his sound into every banjo picker's brain through his landmark 1988 release,
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Psalm 136 video from Béla Fleck and Chris Thile
Béla Fleck has released a live music video for another of the tracks for his current project, My Bluegrass Heart, a double album primarily consisting if his new compositions in a more bluegrass vein. The two-disc set finds him in
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Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021
Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021 - photo © Dave Hollender Our friend Dave Hollender was at the 2021 FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA last month, and captured some great photos of Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart show.
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My Bluegrass Heart – Béla Fleck
After a career that's taken him from abject grassicana with the New Grass Revival to jazz, fusion, funk, classical, and world music alike, Béla Fleck returns to his first love with his first fully realized bluegrass album in some 20