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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music, to be performed in the New Orleans area from Jan. 8-10 ...

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 ...

Left to right: Béla Fleck (banjo), Victor Wooten (electric bass), Howard Levy (piano/harmonica), Roy "Future Man" Wooten (percussion) end their reunion tour at the 2016 Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Heard any Bach on a banjo lately? If that conjures up a tinny twanging to drive you screaming from the room, try a dose of Bela Fleck.