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Béla Fleck
Jazz
The next Béla Fleck concert is scheduled for Friday, May 23, 2025 at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle, WA, United States. See all 46 upcoming concerts
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![Watch Wheels Up (feat. Sierra Hull & Molly Tuttle) [Live at the Farmette in Lyons, Colorado, July 21, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video116/v4/ab/4d/04/ab4d04f7-6dde-f464-6562-a2e65a33a50d/4050538744934_1920.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Wheels Up (feat. Sierra Hull & Molly Tuttle) [Live at the Farmette in Lyons, Colorado, July 21, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck")
![Watch Psalm 136 (feat. Chris Thile) [Live from Telluride, CO, June 14, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video126/v4/88/c9/7d/88c97de5-9f91-b989-faac-67dc2a59b3de/4050538749724_1918.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Psalm 136 (feat. Chris Thile) [Live from Telluride, CO, June 14, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck")
![Watch Round Rock (feat. Michael Cleveland & Jerry Douglas) [Live From Carport Rehearsal Nashville, TN, May 26, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video116/v4/7e/11/38/7e113845-466f-14f0-9916-25ba4f038604/4050538720761_1854.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Round Rock (feat. Michael Cleveland & Jerry Douglas) [Live From Carport Rehearsal Nashville, TN, May 26, 2021] music video by Béla Fleck")
About Béla Fleck
Hometown
New York City, United States of America
Born
1958
Genre
Jazz
Banjo master Béla Fleck plays traditional and progressive bluegrass, jazz, classical, and many forms of world music. He served in progressive bluegrass outfit New Grass Revival before forming Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, an innovative, fusion outfit wedding jazz, funk, country, bluegrass, and improv. Throughout the '90s and into the 21st century, the Flecktones released 1992's UFO Tofu, 2000's Outbound, and 2006's The Hidden Land. Fleck simultaneously released boundary-pushing solo albums including Tales from the Acoustic Planet (1995) and Baroque Perpetual Motion (2001). He also recorded with Toumani Diabaté and Baaba Maal in Africa. The star-studded My Bluegrass Heart appeared in 2022, followed byAs We Speak in 2023. In 2024, Fleck issued Rhapsody in Blue, playing the famous composition in several settings including solo. He also released Remembrance, documenting his final duo tour with pianist Chick Corea. 2025 saw the issue of BEATrio, with harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer/percussionist Antonio Sanchez.
Béla Fleck has also released music as a member of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, The Dreadful Snakes, The Sparrow Quartet, New Grass Revival Strength In Numbers.
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