Just over 30 years ago, master banjo player Béla Fleck was asked to perform on old PBS series The Lonesome Pine Specials. Fleck was a member of bluegrass supergroup New Grass Revival at the time, but ...

The original lineup of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones—banjoist Béla Fleck, Howard Levy on piano and harmonica, percussionist / drumitarist Roy “Future Man” Wooten and bassist Victor Wooten—will return ...

Christmas albums are a staple of the holiday season and oftentimes they can be trite and obvious in their execution. It’s a pitfall Béla Fleck and the Flecktones were well aware of when they released ...

The last time I saw a Bela Fleck performance was two summers ago at a festival in Tennessee. At this particular festival each of the stages that artists performed upon were given names like, ?Which ...

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Originally released in 2008 on Rounder Records, Bela Fleck' Jingle All The Way is an accurate microcosm of the deceptive whimsy the group displays on stage during the best moments of their live ...

Before I try to sell you on this gig, let’s get one thing clear: Yes, there are way too many holiday shows. I don’t need six weeks of Christmas cheer filling up my concert calendar. But! If there’s ...

Named Bass Player magazine’s “Bass Player of the Year” three years in a row, Wooten has also been involved with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and SMV (with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller), as well ...

The WMNF Song of the Day for December 25, 2025, is "The First Noel / Joy to the World" by Béla Fleck & The Flecktones.

When: 9:30 p.m. June 29. What: "Newgrass" mixes bluegrass, jazz, folk and jam styles. Who: Bela Fleck on banjo; Jeff Coffin on sax; Victor Wooten on bass; and RoyEl "FutureMan" Wooten on drumitar.

Even though their leader plays the banjo, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones function as a small jazz combo. On their 2000 studio album, "Outbound," however, the quartet brought in so many guest musicians ...