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 is sharing his commitments for the coming months. Beginning this week, he will take part in three shows performed with his wife and creative partner, Abigail Washburn, before the November ...

May 29, 2026 • Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers. January 7, 2026 • The 18-time ...

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Banjo player Béla Fleck has withdrawn from three dates at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following Donald Trump's addition of his own name to the building. Fleck, who was set to ...

For a lot of listeners, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’s 2008 Christmas album, “Jingle All the Way,” may be one of the band’s most accessible recordings. Fleck is an acknowledged master of the banjo, ...

Béla Fleck is one busy musician. The 16-time Grammy Award-winner banjoist still runs his 20-year-plus old project Béla Fleck & the Flecktones with bassist Victor Wooten, tours in a bluegrass banjo duo ...

After years of wandering through the vast musical labyrinth that encompasses country, classical, jazz, pop, and even portions of African tribal music, Belá Fleck returns home with his new ...

As eclectic an instrument as the banjo may be in 2014, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn could fairly be called its superstars. Fleck has taken the instrument into unusual territory like funk, jazz and ...