The Story of Bela Fleck tickets

Banjoist Bela Fleck has set new marks in many ways throughout his career. He plays the banjo, yes, and is considered the best in the world at it. But he does so much more as a musician, as a composer, innovator, musicologist and pioneer of new instrumental combinations and uses. He has brought the banjo, like no one else can, into genres it has not ventured before: jazz, fusion, music from across Africa and other parts of the world. He has been nominated for Grammy Awards in more categories than any other musician. It's appropriate that Bela Fleck was named after Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, another musical innovator who wasn't afraid to challenge convention. Born in 1958 in New York City, Fleck attended the city's High School of Music and Art, studying French horn, and banjo under innovative banjoist Tony Trischka. Out of high school, Fleck moved to Boston and played in the group Tasty Licks while recording his first album Crossing the Tracks in 1979. He was invited to join the band New Grass Revival, with which he toured for nine years, while also continuing his solo career, releasing several albums through the 1980s, collecting his first Grammy Award nomination for his seventh solo album, Drive, released in 1988. Several Grammys were to come after Fleck left New Grass Revival and joined bassist Victor Wooten in forming the Flecktones. Several albums and half a dozen Grammys later, Fleck continues a heavy performing and recording schedule. With Bela Fleck tickets you will experience the consensus best banjo player in the world, and much more.