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A native of New York City, Fleck was named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Austrian composer Anton Webern, and the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. [4] He was drawn to the banjo at a young age when he heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies television show [5] and when he heard "Dueling Banjos" by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell on the radio.
The Impostor is a concerto for Banjo and Orchestra written by Béla Fleck. Fleck premiered the concerto on September 22, 2011, with the Nashville Symphony (Giancarlo Guerrero conducting) in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. [1] It was recorded over the course of three live performances and released on the eponymous album The ...
This is the discography of the Grammy-winning banjoist Béla Fleck which consists of 25 studio albums (15 solo, two with Tasty Licks, three with Spectrum, two with Sparrow Quartet, three with Abigail Washburn), 13 collaboration albums, one live album, three music videos, 22 singles (16 as lead artist and six as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.
Bela Fleck in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6, 2011. In April 1997, the Flecktones became a quartet again, as they added saxophone player Jeff Coffin to the mix. In June 1997, the Flecktones opened for the Dave Matthews Band. [4] In July the Flecktones toured Europe and sat in on the second set of a Phish show in Lyon, France. This marked the ...
Béla Fleck - Gibson 1937 TB-75 banjo, Gold Star banjo with thick gut (1-20) strings (2) Joshua Bell - Tom Taylor Stradivarius violin of 1732 (3,7,12,19) Gary Hoffman - 1662 Nicolò Amati cello made in Cremona, Italy (3,6,16)
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Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions is an album by banjoist Béla Fleck.Nicknamed "Throw Down Your Heart" after one of the songs, the album is actually a soundtrack for a film of the same name, released by Docurama Films, which he produced, about travelling through Africa, recording with many musicians from that continent as he searched for the origins of the banjo.
My Bluegrass Heart is a studio album by American banjo player Béla Fleck, the third of a trilogy that includes the 1988 album Drive and the 1999 album The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2.