This winter, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will cross the country spreading holiday tidings with the Jingle All the Way Tour. From Nov. 26 to Dec. 20, the long-running bluegrass fusion ensemble’s ...

Just over 30 years ago, master banjo player Béla Fleck was asked to perform on old PBS series The Lonesome Pine Specials. Fleck was a member of bluegrass supergroup New Grass Revival at the time, but ...

The original lineup of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones—banjoist Béla Fleck, Howard Levy on piano and harmonica, percussionist / drumitarist Roy “Future Man” Wooten and bassist Victor Wooten—will return ...

For a lot of listeners, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones’s 2008 Christmas album, “Jingle All the Way,” may be one of the band’s most accessible recordings. Fleck is an acknowledged master of the banjo, ...

Christmas albums are a staple of the holiday season and oftentimes they can be trite and obvious in their execution. It’s a pitfall Béla Fleck and the ...

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Howard Levy has announced that he is unable to perform with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones on their upcoming holiday tour. Singer/songwriter and mandolin player Sierra Hull will fill in for the ...