The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music, to be performed in the New Orleans area from Jan. 8-10 ...

You scan the playlist — Schumann, Handel, Bach, and friends — and you wonder how this is possible. But no: John Bullard is serious, and although he plays the banjo, he does not view that as an ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

series was a sure winner. Like ASO, Fleck is expanding his musical world, seriously projecting the possibilities of his instrument, the banjo, beyond bluegrass to classical and world stages.

Banjo superstar and 16-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck can jam with just about anybody. With bluegrass icons like Earl Scruggs. With jazz musicians. With African thumb piano players. With Indian tabla ...