Eight-time Grammy Award winner Bela Fleck was fascinated with the banjo from an early age, but his teachers kept pushing him to play other instruments. Luckily, he kept up with the banjo — when ...

When seeing BEATrio in concert, drummer Antonio Sanchez, who positioned himself as the project's leader,  rather offhandedly quipped, “Banjo, harp, ...

Béla Fleck, a New Yorker by birth and a banjo player by choice, has always been aware of the stereotypes. It's one reason he adapted the banjo to almost every musical genre imaginable ...

“To just go in the room and fill it up with banjo was really a joy.” Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck will appear together ... so powerful — the note choices, the tone. Everything about ...

Béla Fleck is often ... a resurgence for the banjo, and has led the way for the next generations. Why do you think the banjo sounds so distinctive? What makes its tone? It's a combination of ...

This Saturday, banjo extraordinaire Béla Fleck performs live at Wolf Trap in ... All of those rules that I learned about taste, time and tone stood me in good stead when I joined New Grass ...

Fleck plays his solo arrangement of "The Star Spangled Banner," surely one of the most original takes on Sousa's piece since Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. His virtuoso banjo picking lends a rootsy ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said ...