Bela Fleck

Live Review: BEATrio, Cadogan Hall, London – 9th & 10th July 2025

July 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Two rare opportunities to see BEATrio where Béla Fleck has joined forces with harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez to produce a new sound in his banjo repertoire – and apologies to all the drum […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass is a genre that has expanded to fit the ambitions of its practitioners in recent years. We’ve looked at Bela Fleck’s experiments with it in previous columns, but has stretched genre to breaking point with […]

Track Premiere: Rebecca Frazier “High Country Road Trip”

June 10, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Rebecca Frazier certainly has her Bluegrass credentials – as the first woman to grace the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and in 2018, she also became the first woman to earn a Guitar Performer of the […]

Bluegrass Briefs – Sister Sadie, Under The Rocks , Bela Fleck

March 6, 2024 Tim Martin 1

Our first round up of 2024 brings 3 constrasting albums from the nearest and furthest reaches of Bluegrass… Sister Sadie ‘No Fear’ The last Sister Sadie album was over 5 years ago and, in that time, […]

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia “As We Speak”

May 31, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass as world music, master musicians exploring new ways of combining sounds and styles. If Americana, or indeed America, is anything it is a fusion of influences combining to make something new. In this case Bluegrass […]