Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nashville banjoist Béla Fleck announced earlier this week he was canceling upcoming appearances at the newly renamed Trump-John F.

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, “it would be to ...

Paste Studio “On The Road” rambles on, this time to Wilkesboro, N.C., for the 36th annual MerleFest! The festival was founded in 1988 in memory of Doc Watson’s son Merle, and features “traditional ...

Béla Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and sound of the banjo through a remarkable legacy that has taken him all over the musical map. Rhythm, Raga & Rhapsody will celebrate the music of ...

Béla Fleck is coming to Grand Junction with a whole new look. On his previous two stops in Grand Junction, Fleck was with the Flecktones: Futureman, Jeff Coffin and Victor Wooten. This time Fleck will ...

Béla Fleck has canceled his upcoming appearance at Kennedy Center after a recent board vote resulted in former President Donald Trump’s name being attached to the institution. In a statement shared on ...

Grammy-winning banjo player Bela Fleck is the latest artist to cancel a schedule performance at the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump's name was added to the arts and cultural institution as ...

Banjo, harp and drums are not exactly your typical jazz trio. But Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez make that combination come alive in a project they call the BEATrio. Sánchez jokes ...

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 ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Appearing with the Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday evening July 6, Béla Fleck surprised the Blossom Music Center crowd not so much by the level of his playing — virtuosic as ...

Fleck, Meyer, Hussain and Chaurasia’s album “As We Speak” was released in May. It is a hands-across-the-water collaboration that brings together Western and Indian classical music, bluegrass, jazz, ...