The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival has announced its 2011 lineup, featuring HSB mainstays like Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris , Kris Kristofferson , and Robert Plant , alongside less bluegrass-ey artists like Bright Eyes , Broken Social Scene , Buckethead , Fitz & the Tantrums, Kurt Vile & the Violators, and MC Hammer (no, seriously; he's running the annual children's program). The three-day music festival is FREE and will take place September 30th through October 2nd in Golden Gate Park (at the Speedway Meadow). Hardly [...]
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, press photograph by Mark Seliger Wow. Take all your expectations of Gillian Welch' s mournful voice and David Rawlings's flawless guitar riffs from your favorite albums, whether it be the most recent The Harrow and the Harvest or the now 14 year-old Revival , and sum them all into one balmy evening. If you add a bit more guitar and bit more emotion, as well as interjections from Gillian and David, you just might have what we had the pleasure of experiencing August 3 at [...]
Bela Fleck and the original Flecktones are back at it. The progressive, jazz-infused band is touring in celebration of its recent release, Rocket Science -- the first record the group's crea... Continue reading "Bela Fleck on 'Rocket Science', the band's big tour, and banjos" >
Toronto – Here's the thing about Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' (or, the ORIGINAL Flecktones, if you're a stickler) Jazz Festival set. It was excellent, bordering on utterly brilliant, except for one thing: it would've been better if it had been shorter by three songs. This isn't about the set going too late ( again ), and I wasn't the only one who noticed it, as my compatriot Mark said the same thing. Bela Fleck, along with bandmates Victor Wooten, Howard Levy and Futureman played brilliantly all night. Their solos were breathtaking, their call-and-response playing was [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Rob Loud, Getty Images Up high in the San Juan mountain range, some 8,750 feet above sea level, lies beautiful Telluride, Colo., home of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for 38 years and counting. Every third week of June, it's where mandolins seem more prevalent than electric guitars, banjos are strummed at lightning speed and where a tiny fiddle howls louder than the gusting mountain wind, thanks to veteran [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Jason Merritt, Getty Images In 2005, at their first Telluride Bluegrass Festival , the Decemberists challenged the deep mountain event's world-class banjo, mandolin and fiddle players to a pick-off. And they won...but only by default. "We were like 'Bela, come up here and show us your stuff!'" frontman Colin Meloy (pictured) told the crowd, about singling out banjo sleuth and Telluride Bluegrass festival [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Look, we know that your Dad is pretty set in his ways when it comes to music. If it were up to him, he'd probably hole up with his collection of [...]
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 [...]
Words : Ryan Maher Photos : Tammy Wetzel Ah, Summer Camp . Last year you turned 10, this year you had quite the growth spurt at 11. Attendees quickly realized as they lined in that they'd be camping in tighter quarters with many new neighbors, as record numbers made their way to Chillicothe. [All photos by Tammy Wetzel] Thankfully mother nature gave us a break by ending the early rain in time for a dry load-in. The [...]
by Jon Stone | @jwstone I got a speeding ticket when I was about five miles from Three Sisters Park , the site just north of Peoria, IL where Summer Camp Music Festival has been held every year for the past ten. I was going nine over the posted 45-miles-per-hour speedlimit but there was a nice little stretch of road along the Illinois river and I was gazing out over it wondering what to expect from the weekend. A few minutes into the traffic stop, I was informed by the officer [...]
Non-fans of the banjo are legion, and reluctantly I count myself among them. I think of the banjo as something like balsamic vinegar: it’s excellent in small doses but if you drink a pint glass of it you’ll probably become ill. I feel the same about the harmonica, especially that excessively smooth harmonica sound Toots Theilmans made so popular in the theme to Midnight Cowboy. That’s the harmonica tone Howard Levy delivers in Rocket Science. You can even make out the first strains of “Midnight Cowboy Theme” in the track “Falani” on this album. That being said, there’s [...]
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by Tom Johnson Sometimes old really is new again. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones existed as a trio for a handful of years after harmonica/pianist Howard Levy left, only to ask consistent fill-in saxophonist Jeff Coffin to join their ranks. Being a talented guy, he gets around, and when Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore tragically died a few years
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 [...]
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Long-running jazzy jam band led by Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the original line-up (with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold) with this new, reinvigorated album of instrumental brilliance // Release : Rocket Science (Just out, Entertainment 1) // Sounds like : Where to start? As with all Fleck albums, we have the spirited improvisation melded with influences as varied as blues, pop, gypsy, folk, African and whatever eclectic and adventurous mindset the band is into at the time... [...]
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New Music Releases - Tuesday, May 17, 2011: - Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better Remixed EP - Austra - Feel It Break - Bahamas - Pink Strat - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Rocket Science - Ben Harper - Give Till It's Gone - Bon Iver - Calgary [...]
As we look forward to festival season, one of the pleasant surprises will surely be the return of the complete original lineup of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones . The band of virtuosos will hit it hard this summer with almost 50 performances lined up between now and November, so it shouldn't be too tough to catch them in your neck of the woods. To gear up for the return, we look to the high school students at Huntington Beach Academy for the Arts and their unique performance of Bela's fan favorite, New South Africa. [...]
If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She—a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player—is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before. To put it another way, she changes what seems possible. [...]
Jam Cruise 10 sets sail from Ft. Lauderdale, FL on January 9 aboard the MSC Poesia and will visit Labadee, Haiti and Falmouth, Jamaica before returning to Ft. Lauderdale on January 14. Over the first nine Jam Cruises a number of artists have proven themselves to be ideal performers for the community-oriented vibe of the trip. Jam Cruise 102s lineup brings nearly all of those acts back to the open seas including HT faves Umphrey's McGee, Galactic, Soulive, Perpetual Groove, The New Mastersounds, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Railroad Earth. [...]
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