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 ...

Five-string banjo wizard Bela Fleck plays an arrangement of Niccolo Paganini's Moto pertetuo accompanied by Edgar Meyer at the piano on the 2001 album "Perpetual Motion," showcasing Fleck's amazing ...

Classical banjo? Bela Fleck to perform works from Bach, Beethoven and Debussy at Sanders theaterBy Larry Katz / Boston Herald Thursday, January 31, 2002 Back when Steve Martin did stand-up, he'd play ...

You might think that someone born with the name Bela Anton Leos Fleck would be destined to perform classical music, and you’d be right. Multi Grammy-winning banjo player Bela Fleck, born in New York ...

Internationally renowned banjoist and composer Béla Fleck returns to New Orleans this weekend to perform with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, for two concerts at the Orpheum Theater and one at ...

He”s a native New Yorker, named after avant-garde European composers Bela Bartok, Anton Webern and Leos Janacek, so it was probably destiny that he became a famous musician. But Bela Fleck”s central ...

Already a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz and rock, the ground-breaking banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck has made the classical connection with Perpetual Motion,'' his first recording for the ...

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their Grammy Award-nominated album The Melody of Rhythm - Triple Concerto & Music for Trio. Béla Fleck (banjo), Zakir ...

1 Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis Béla Fleck performs his Banjo Concerto in his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Severance Hall tonight, December 6, 7, and 8. Giancarlo ...

Bela Fleck isn’t the first to perform Bach on the banjo — from Pete Seeger in the ’50s to John Bullard in the ’90s, pickers have been drawn to twist their fingers around the “classics.” No banjo ...