Béla Fleck & The Flecktones returned after two years, blending jazz, bluegrass, classical, and funk in a magical night at The Ford.

In 1988, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones debuted as a wholly original hybrid. Fleck was an ace banjo picker with established bluegrass bonafides.

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones will return to Boston this winter for Jingle All the Way, a one-night-only holiday concert at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre on Saturday, December 6, 2025.

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 ...

This Saturday, banjo extraordinaire Béla Fleck performs live at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, reuniting with mandolin master Sam Bush and the Jerry Douglas Band.

But chances are, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones can keep on playing music as long as they want — they've been at it 24 years already — and they'll never seem like your run-of-the-mill band.

Cool stuff: New York City native Fleck was named after classical composer Bela Bartok. ... Fleck, who turns 49 on July 10, began playing banjo at age 15 after listening in awe to the bluegrass of ...

During the latter performance, the instrumental specialist welcomed assistance from Future Man (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones) on select pulls.

Since their formation in 1988, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have released 14 critically-acclaimed albums and have toured relentlessly, earning them a fervent fan following around the world.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones The thing about playing the jazz banjo is it takes awhile for people to realize that you're not kidding, Bela Fleck said in a recent interview.

Bela Fleck, an acknowledged master of the banjo, and his dizzyingly talented sidekicks filled the Wiltern LG Theater with such arrestingly textured music for nearly two hours Nov. 22 that it's ...