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In honor of The String Cheese Incident's first full tour firing up next weekend in Asheville, we are featuring a classic show from the still-yet-to-be-reopened Saenger Theatre in 2000. This SCI/Bela Fleck twin bill was a Superfly Presents production pre-dating the locally born entertainment company's big jumping off point in 2002 when they helped create [...]
The NYC concert calendar chills out a bit this week. But there's still plenty of action, including a jam-packed weekend of shows that's going to set up some tough decisions....
The Voodoo Experience is now in the rearview and the relentless fall concert schedule is starting to slow down (although one could easily keep themselves busy on the live circuit until NYE) and therefore it's time to start speculating about the 2012 Jazz Fest lineup. Hard to say who will be at the top of [...]
This week, we've got a handful of tickets fo Bela Fleck And The Flecktones ' performance at The Keswick Theatre on Thursday, November 17th. For a chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment below by 5 p.m. Monday, November 14th. We'll select the winners at random that evening and notify them via email; once you've confirmed that you and your guest will be attending the show, your names will be added to the venue's guest list. (Just make sure to use a valid email address when posting your comment; we promise not to [...]
Last week, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones returned to New Orleans for a lengthy show at House of Blues with their newly reunited original lineup that now features Howard Levy in the place of Jeff Coffin, who has been off touring with Dave Matthews Band for the past few years. To be a member of [...]
"Shakori Hills Community Arts Center's mission is to provide an environment for community building through arts and education." The weather could not have been better for a four day weekend of communal music and dance at the Shakori Hills Grassroots festival . A diverse group of people gathered together all with one goal: to climb festival mountain. Festival mountain has many trail heads that all lead to the top. Some may choose to go the dancing route, and find themselves encountering the "whitest dance" around town: clogging. That's right, ladies and gentleman, a clogging workshop was led [...]
Last night Bela Fleck & the Flecktones returned to New Orleans to play House of Blues with a full-on "reunited" original band now featuring Howard Levy in the place that Jeff Coffin had most recently been filling. Here's a video that just surfaced from the show...
" Groupon Presents: Chicago Music Series Featuring Umphrey's McGee" at Lincoln Hall ... http://t.co/vOxNrfx1 # SETLISTS / VIDEOS: Trey Anastasio Band Keeps Up On New Debuts http://t.co/Ikf0HLAU # WTF / AWESOME: Foster the People (w/ Kenny G ) on Saturday Night Live http://t.co/8i5H3Ffr # PHISH TWEET: So when that Dick's Piper hits about 5:45....my god. That really is the good stuff. # phish #dicks # wishiwasatthoseshows [...]
WHY : The Original lineup of the Flecktones reformed recently for the first time in nearly two decades, putting out the band's first album of new material in six years with Rocket Science. Piano/harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy (aka "The Man With Two Brains") steps back into the band, filling the void left by sax man Jeff Coffin, who has had his hands-full on the road as a full-time touring member of the Dave Matthews Band.
We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… After selling an estimated 70 million albums, and years of public feuding and bickering, the Brothers Gallagher finally pulled the plug on Oasis in 2009. Liam collected the pieces of their shattered band to form Beady Eye , who put out their debut album Different Gear, Still Speeding , earlier this year. Not to be outdone by his younger brother, Noel has announced the formation of a band he's [...]
Of course you do! Four days of music, dance, art and education in the heart of North Carolina, what could be a better way to spend fall break? The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is holding its Fall Festival October 6-9 in Chatham County. Over 60 bands, including Béla Fleck & The Flecktones , Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings , Donna the Buffalo , Brett Dennen , Sidi Touré , The Duhks , Rosie Ledet , Nawal , Preston Frank , Emmit-Nershi Band , Eilen Jewell , Toubab Krewe , Bearfoot [...]
Béla Fleck has released more details surrounding his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra planned for September 22-24 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Very cool. Béla Fleck will present the world premiere of his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra — one of the first ever written for the instrument — with the Nashville Symphony on September 22-24 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. To be performed by Fleck on his vintage 1937 mahogany Gibson Mastertone banjo, the Concerto marks a significant new departure for Fleck, who calls the piece "a liberating experience for my efforts [...]
On November 8, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs will release her first album of children's music called Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs For Children . Inspired by the birth of their son, Veirs and her longtime producer Martine Tucker dove head first into the history of children's folk music to select songs for the 13-track album, which range from the traditional to contemporary from the likes of Woody Guthrie, Peggy Seeger and Harry Belafonte. The album will also feature an impressive array of guest spots that include Jim James, Bela Fleck and Colin [...]
Hardly Strictly just announced their 2011 line up! Here it is, with tunes from some of our favorites: Jonathan Wilson A.A. Bondy - "When the Devil's Loose" Dive Bar Dukes Justin Townes Earle - "Harlem River Blues" Wendy Bird Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Elbow - "With Love" Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson Thurston Moore - "Benediction" Cass McCombs Dark Star Orchestra South Memphis String Band Seamus Kennedy David Bromberg Quartet Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard Kieran Kane Kevin [...]
The eOne Music Group is excited to herald the success of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' recent release, Rocket Science. The highly anticipated reunion record, which marks their first recording together in 20 years, immediately jumped to #1 on both Billboard's Jazz Chart, Soundscan's Jazz Chart, and iTune's Jazz Chart. Released on May 17th to critical acclaim, Rolling Stone noted that Rocket Science "finds the Grammy Award-winning group still in fine progressive form." The Flecktones' North American tour route began...
Oh, Bonnaroo . You do it to us every time. Year by year, over 80,000 people make the pilgrimage to a field in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee to camp for four days in the blistering heat with little to no refuge and more dust than anyone should be able to handle. That sounds kinda miserable, right? How then, you might ask, did Bonnaroo make it to this, their 10th year? I think that can be summed up in their newfound theme song, by the Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, "Bonnaroo (Feel the Magic)". [...]
That's like, a lot of people, man. Outside of surprisingly tame Warped Tour (2004) and Lollapalooza (2006) experiences, I am pretty unlearned in the way of big-time festivals. I like wireless internet. I like duvets. Hell, I love long showers. But, against my better judgment and my body's wishes, I will be making the roughly 700 mile trek this Wednesday evening with 75,000 other junkies, goons, hippies, hipsters, hoopsters, blipsters, eagle scouts and everyone else in-between to the muggy fields of Manchester, Tenn. All joking aside, Bonnaroo is about the music, and we have [...]
With an expansive lawn, selling out the N orth Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) proves to be quite difficult. However, the first show of the summer season on June 4, did just this. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones attracted such a varied audience that every inch of the lawn was taken - whether it be by hip young professionals eating olives, cheese, and wine or older couples eating a hot box of Bojangle's fried chicken. The show started around 8:15PM, the perfect time to sit [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , All About Jazz Jeremy Cowart It's hard to figure out where to position Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Since their inception in 1988, the Grammy -winning band has been at the vanguard of the newgrass movement, primarily because Fleck started out in bluegrass and is one of the greatest living banjo players. The rhythm section of bassist Victor Wooten [...]
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