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Béla Fleck Expands My Bluegrass Heart Tour

Béla Fleck Expands My Bluegrass Heart Tour

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Following his sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Ryman in Nashville, Tenn. Béla Fleck has announced he will expand his My Bluegrass Heart tour. The performances explore the beloved banjoist’s latest offering My Bluegrass Heart and welcomes an ensemble featuring the most skilled and respected bluegrass musicians around.

Of the tour’s third run–which kicks off tonight at Savannah Music Festival in Savanah, Ga.– Fleck said in a release, “We’re reuniting the incredible first band—but with one change. Fiddler Stuart Duncan joins Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton and me. It’s time for the banjo player in the band to practice feverishly, because keeping up with this gang is no joke. It’s also one of the great joys!

Fleck will continue to perform his album, which is nominated for the 2022 Best Bluegrass Grammy, into April making stops at theaters including the Tarrytown Music Hall, in Tarrytown N.Y., The Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Del., the Knight Theater Charlotte, N.C. and more. He’ll continue with four shows in May including one at Del Fest, along with a few shows in June.

Listen to My Bluegrass Heart here , and for vinyl and more, visit  BelaFleck.com . 

Read Relix ‘s feature with Fleck on his project here . Enjoy some videos featuring tracks off My Bluegrass Heart below:

Béla Fleck:  My Bluegrass Heart Tour 

Featuring Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton

March 31  Savannah, GA  Savannah Music Festival 

April 1  Norfolk, VA  Virginia Arts Festival 

April 2  Reading, PA  Berks Jazz Festival

April 3  Northampton, MA  The Academy of Music

April 5  Lebanon, NH  Lebanon Opera House

April 6  Ithaca, NY  State Theatre of Ithaca

April 7  Concord, NH  Capitol Center for the Arts

April 8  Albany, NY  The Egg

April 9  New London, CT  Garde Arts Center

April 10  Patchogue, NY  Patchogue Theatre

April 12  Williamsport, PA  Community Arts Center

April 13  Tarrytown, NY  Tarrytown Music Hall

April 14  Wilmington, DE  The Grand Opera House

April 15  Charlotte, NC  Knight Theater 

April 16  Bristol, TN  Paramount Bristol 

Featuring Michael Cleveland, Jacob Jolliff, Cody Kilby, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz

May 24  Wilmington, NC  Greenfield Lake Amphitheater

May 25  Durham, NC  Carolina Theatre

May 26  Charleston, SC  Charleston Music Hall 

May 27  Cumberland, MD  DelFest

Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton 

June 12  Springfield, MO  Gillioz Theater

June 14  Kansas City, MO  Kauffman Center

June 16 & 19 Telluride, CO  Telluride Bluegrass Festival (+ special guests)

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November 4, 2022 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm.

Join us November 4th 2022 for Bela Fleck My Bluegrass Heart! Tickets are on sale now.  Preferred seating is $68 and reserved seating is $58.  Doors open at 6:00 pm, and the concert begins at 7:00 pm. Bar and concessions available.  At this time, no covid-19 restrictions will be in place for this concert.

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart featuring Stuart Duncan, Jacob Jolliff, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, & Bryan Sutton

Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 16 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart.

Grammy award-winning album My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Stuart Duncan, mandolinist Jacob Jolliff, multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz, and guitarist Bryan Sutton.

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Béla Fleck Stages All-Star ‘My Bluegrass Heart’ Show At The Ryman With Billy Strings, Sam Bush, More [Videos]

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Béla Fleck  on Saturday staged a special performance on his  My Bluegrass Heart  tour featuring  Billy Strings ,  Sam Bush ,  Sierra Hull ,  Michael Cleveland , and more at Nashville’s  Ryman Auditorium . The show celebrated the banjo master’s 2021 album of the same name, hosting guest appearances from many of the musicians who contributed to it, and was streamed live via Mandolin .

After the show was delayed a night by a winter storm that blew through Music City on Friday, it was finally time to get down to business on Saturday. The first set began with a selection from Fleck’s last bluegrass album prior to  My Bluegrass Heart , 1999’s  The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 2 . From there on out, however, it was a showcase for the new LP with fresh compositions including “Verito”, “This Old Road”, “Hug Point”, “Round Rock”, “The Old North Woods”, “Us Chicken”, and the set-closing “Tentacle Dragon (Revenge of the)”.

Related: Billy Strings, Béla Fleck Collaborate On “Balderdash” At AmericanaFest 2019 [Watch]

Guest appearances began rolling in during the second set, starting with Sierra Hull lending her hand to the opening “Psalm 136”. Musicians continued to trot onstage with Molly Tuttle on “Strider”, before the whole gang came out for “Charm School”, including Jerry Douglas , Sam Bush, Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, and bassist Mark Schatz . The band didn’t let up on the following “Wheels Up”, which welcomed dobro player Justin Moses , Hull, Tuttle, Cleveland, and Schatz.

The storied Ryman stage reached an apex for “Hunter’s Moon” ahead of a fiddle fest on “Baptist Pumpkin Farm” and finally the set-closing “Boulderdash”. Returning for an encore, Fleck and the  My Bluegrass Heart band still had plenty left in the tank. The encore began with New Grass Revival ‘s “When the Storm is Over” ahead of Bill Monroe ‘s “Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day”. A fitting tribute to The Volunteer State came next with “Tennessee (I Hear You Calling Me)” ahead of the show-closing “I’m on My Way Back to the Old Home”.

Check out some fan-shot videos from Béla Fleck’s  My Bluegrass Heart  at Ryman Auditorium on Saturday courtesy of Music City Maven . Fleck has another star-studded  My Bluegrass Heart  show scheduled for tonight, January 9th, at New York City’s  Carnegie Hall  with many of the same musicians in tow with the notable addition of Chris Thile . For tickets and a full list of tour dates visit Fleck’s website .

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart  – “Tentacle Dragon (Revenge of the)” – 1/8/22

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart  – “Charm School” – 1/8/22

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart  – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – 1/8/22

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart  – “Tennessee (I Hear You Calling Me)” (Godfery, Robe) – 1/8/22

Setlist : Béla Fleck | Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN | 1/8/22

Set One: Blue Mountain Hop, Vertigo, This Old Road, Hug Point, Round Rock, The Old North Woods, Us Chickens, Tentacle Dragon (Revenge of the)

Set Two: Psalm 136 [1], Strider [2], Our Little Secret, Charm School [3], Wheels Up [4], Hunter’s Moon [5], Baptist Pumpkin Farm [6], Boulderdash

Encore: When the Storm Is Over (New Grass Revival), Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day (Bill Monroe), Tennessee (I Hear You Calling Me) (Godfrey, Robe), I’m on My Way Back to the Old Home

[1] w/ Sierra Hull

[2] w/ Molly Tuttle

[3] Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland (fiddle), Mark Schatz (bass)

[4] Justin Moses (dobro), Sierra Hull (mandolin), Molly Tuttle, Michael Cleveland (fiddle), Mark Schatz

[5] 10 musicians

[6] 4.5 fiddles including Sam Bush

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Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart

April 12, 2022 7:30 pm.

Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 15 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart.

My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Stuart Duncan, mandolinist Sierra Hull, multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton on guitar.

“I’m so looking forward to taking this band out on tour. For folks that know bluegrass, these folks need no introduction, as they’ve been making a ton of noise in that world for some time.

I have almost always played and recorded my bluegrass projects with the folks from my own age and peer group — Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, etc. But for this new album, I wanted to open up to the fresh and powerfully evolved musicians who have come along since us, and partly because of us! This tour will feature some of these players. I first got to know Sierra Hull when she asked me to produce her album, Weighted Mind. She is a shockingly good player, with more than enough ability to play my admittedly angular and sometimes complex form of bluegrass. So I’m thrilled to finally be able to do some live playing with her and take it to the moon!

Stuart Duncan and I go way back. I prided myself on being to him what Jerry Douglas had been to me – encouraging him to move to Nashville to play with Nashville Bluegrass Band. Somehow Stuart has managed to elevate bluegrass fiddling dramatically in earthy and unexpected ways. My pal Bryan Sutton, a stunner of a flat picker and one of the bright lights of the bluegrass guitar continuum has been my cohort in the Telluride House Band as well as an acoustic trio that I toured with some years back with Casey Driessen. But playing on this new album he impressed me over and again with his flexibility and raw ability.

Bassist Mark Schatz and I started playing together way back in 77’, in a Boston Bluegrass band unfortunately named Tasty Licks! We moved together to Lexington, KY in 79’ to start Spectrum. In 81’ I joined New Grass Revival, and he went on to play with Tony Rice, Tim O’Brien, and Nickel Creek among many others. I’m thrilled to be reunited with my old, right-hand man, Mark!

I was stumped for a while as to what to do about the double fiddle and dobro parts on the recording, until I realized there was one guy who could do both — and a whole lot more. Justin Moses is a great mandolinist, banjoist, and a great singer to boot. He’s gonna be our wild card. He will be grabbing the fiddle to double fiddle with Stuart, switching to dobro, then jumping to banjo for a double banjo number, and mandolin for the double mando track from the album. So I’m amazed I could get all that in one very talented guy.

As you can imagine, I’m very excited to play with these guys. We’ve all been locked up for so long and we’re dying to get out there and play some music!” — Béla Fleck

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Just in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Béla, you know that he just loves to play the banjo and put it into unique settings.

My Bluegrass Heart , released in 2021, is vividly collaborative, and part of Fleck’s talent as a leader is encouraging his bandmates to shine.

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by Madeline Crone September 14, 2021, 3:20 pm

After years of wandering through the vast musical labyrinth that encompasses country, classical, jazz, pop, and even portions of African tribal music, Belá Fleck returns home with his new collaborative LP My Bluegrass Heart . Released September 10, the album serves as the third chapter in a decades-spanning trilogy that began with the 15-time Grammy-winner’s 1988’s Drive and continued in 1999 with The Bluegrass Sessions. 

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His core group of bluegrass comrades, including mandolinist and fellow New Grass Revivalist Sam Bush, guitarist Tony Rice, fiddle player Stuart Duncan, bassist Mark Schatz and dobro player Jerry Douglas appear on Drive , along with special guests Mark O’Connor and Peter Rowan. Bluegrass Sessions featured John Hartford, Vassar Clements, and Earl Scruggs — all three of which are no longer with us. In memory of Rice, their late friend, and bandmate, The New Grass outfit joined forces once again for Fleck’s new project.

Produced and composed by Fleck, My Bluegrass Heart marks the artist’s first Bluegrass album in over 20 years. Yet, the pioneering artist pulls from two decades of expansive musical exploration, resulting in what might be Fleck’s most dynamic contribution to date.

The Flecktones, the project that immediately followed New Grass Revival, recently celebrated 30 years of melding acoustic with electronic and Bluegrass with jazz and funk. Venturing further, Fleck released duo albums and tours with jazz legend Chick Corea and life partner Abigail Washburn, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, three classical banjo concertos, an amazing collaboration with Indian musical royalty — Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Churasia, and old friend/bass genius Edgar Meyer. Between these works, the artist also created the award-winning 2009 documentary Throw Down Your Heart , which explored the African origins of the banjo.

“I’m being a little braver,” Fleck tells American Songwriter over the phone in a recent interview about the album project. “Typically, when I do a Bluegrass record, I kind of work within a certain idiomatic way of playing. Even though I play around the edges of it, I don’t go that far. But this album, I decided to include it all — some really traditional stuff, some fairly straightforward stuff, but just be myself the whole way. And then put some of the creativity that I would typically put into a project with Chick Corea or orchestra or Zakir Hussain, but put it into a bluegrass context.

My Bluegrass Heart is centered on the tradition of sharing music between generations. The album is dedicated to both Rice and Corea — whose classic My Spanish Heart inspired the title. To honor their musical legacy, Fleck finds the balance by inviting both old friends and new ones from the emerging class of Bluegrass purveyors.

Album opener “Vertigo,” sees Fleck reuniting with Bush, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Bryan Sutton of the Telluride House Band — setting the tone of tried-and-true musical tradition in which Fleck rooted his new project. Similarly, “Bum’s Rush” welcomes contributions from Douglas’ dobro and Billy Contreras’ trans-genre fiddle-violin dexterity.

Songs like “Charm School” , featuring 28-year-old guitar-virtuoso Billy Strings and a 40-year-old Chris Thile on mandolin, are carefully crafted tunes intended to carry on age-old traditions while embracing multi-generational neo-folk approaches.

“It’s really fun to play with younger players that care about what you’ve been doing your whole life, and they’re inspired by it. It’s a booby prize, you could say, of getting older,” says Fleck.

“In my opinion, Béla Fleck is one of the most important musicians of all time,” Strings shares about the collaboration. “He bridges the gap between bluegrass, classical, jazz, world music, and everything in between. It seems like there’s no limit to what he can achieve on the banjo.”

Similar to what Rice and Bush’s music meant to Fleck before he started playing with them, Fleck is humbled by the reverence with which his predecessors approach their genre contributions.

“It’s a great thing, if you live long enough, you find out some small number of people are really moved by what you do,” he continues. “When you interact with them, you realize you’re in them. And when you hear new things, it’s so familiar to me. I can relate to it in that if I started at a later point, that’s where I would be. But since they’re starting with me, that’s where they are.”

Fleck considers that Trischka — his teacher — probably has a similar experience when he hears Fleck’s music. “He’s hearing me taking off from where he started. Even though everything he does is as valid as anything I do, it must be interesting for him to hear what I’m up to. It’s the same, I think when I hear Chris Thiles or Billy Strings and everybody that my music and group’s music has had an impact on.”

Thiles and Strings line up again for the venturing “Slippery Eel.” And Strings steps further into the project, teaming up with David Grisman on “This Old Road,” and a one-on-one effort with Fleck on “Tentacle Dragon.” The latter pushes the Bluegrass bounds with the help of Strings’ undeniable guitar-driven interpretation.

“Béla Fleck is my hero,” Strings continued. “So when I got the call to play on this record, I felt like a young Jedi who’s just gotten the rare opportunity to go train with master Yoda. Though it was a challenge to learn the music, it’s an honor to have been trusted to sit in the guitar chair for these songs. To play alongside these fantastic musicians in the studio was a dream come true, and I’ll never forget it.”

Similarly, “Wheels Up” captures another moment of collaboration more breakthrough successors. Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle step up to the plate in this more modern take on a traditional fiddle tune. Other moments like “Strider” and “Hug Point” see the pair checking in with their earliest influences while following Fleck’s avant-garde imprints.

“The album ended up being a wonderful combination of old friends that I pushed to a certain extent, and new people that I pushed maybe harder because they could take it — they wanted it,” says Fleck. “Not that my old friends aren’t capable, they totally are. But at a certain point, I start to feel bad about putting them through the things that I dream up that are time-consuming. It was nice to spread it out because nobody got burned out on the recording. If I had done the whole thing with one band, by the end of it, there would have been some casualties.”

Béla will be touring My Bluegrass Heart  throughout 2021 with Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton, Chris Thile, Molly Tuttle and more to be announced.  Tour dates are below, and ticket information can be found on Fleck’s website.

Listen to Belá Fleck’s latest LP My Bluegrass Heart , here .

Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart Tour Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton 9.15 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry 9.17 Roanoke, VA // Jefferson Center 9.18 Berryville , VA // Watermelon Pickers’ Fest 2021 9.19 Glenside, PA // The Keswick Theatre 9.21 Pittsburgh, PA // Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall 9.22 Bethesda, MD // The Music Center at Strathmore 9.23 Cumberland, MD // DelFest 9.24 Princeton, NJ // McCarter Theatre Center 9.25 Boston, MA // Berklee Performance Center 9.26 North Adams, MA // FreshGrass 9.28 Kent, OH // The Kent Stage 9.29 Cincinnati, OH // Taft Theatre 9.30 Charlottesville, VA // The Paramount Theater 10.01 Raleigh, NC // IBMA Bluegrass Live!

Featuring Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, & Bryan Sutton

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11.27 Grand Rapids, MI // DeVos Performance Hall 11.28 Fort Wayne, IN // Clyde Theatre 11.29 Milwaukee, WI // Riverside Theater 12.01 St. Louis, MO // The Sheldon Concert Hall 12.02 Des Moines, IA // Hoyt Sherman Place 12.03 Salina, KS // The Stiefel Theatre 12.04 Denver, CO // Paramount Theatre* 12.05 Jackson, WY // Center For The Arts 12.07 Portland, OR // Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 12.08 Seattle, WA // Paramount Theatre* 12.09 Eugene, OR // Jaqua Concert Hall – 2 shows! 12.10 Redding, CA // The Cascade Theatre* 12.11 Reno, NV // Silver Legacy Resort Casino 12.12 Berkeley, CA // The UC Theatre 12.13 Carmel, CA // Sunset Cultural Center 12.14 Costa Mesa, CA // Segerstrom Center for the Arts 12.16 San Diego, CA // Balboa Theatre 12.17 Los Angeles, CA // Theater at the ACE Hotel 12.18 Tempe, AZ // Tempe Center for the Arts 12.19 Tucson, AZ // Fox Tucson Theatre 1.7.22 Ryman Auditorium // Nashville, TN – SOLD OUT Featuring Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton, Chris Thile, Molly Tuttle & more

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He’s one of the most versatile, adventurous musicians in the world. A winner of 15 Grammy Awards in nine categories, Béla Fleck has performed in a stunning range of contexts, from classical concert halls to jazz clubs to villages in West Africa. Yet after many travels and much effort raising people’s awareness of the flexibility and soul of his chosen instrument, the banjo, Fleck’s musical heart will always find a home where it started, in bluegrass.

On Wednesday, December 15, Fleck will take the stage at the Arlington Theatre with an elite group of bluegrass musicians who have been his creative companions and collaborators for upwards of four decades. The concert, which kicks off UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “Soul of America” series , features mandolinist Sam Bush, fiddler Stuart Duncan, dobro player Jerry Douglas, bassist Edgar Meyer, and guitarist Bryan Sutton.

In part, it’s a celebration of Fleck’s recent release, the extravagant double album My Bluegrass Heart , but it’s more than that, according to Fleck. When I spoke to him by phone last week, he described the album as one of his periodic “love letters to the bluegrass community” and then insisted that the concert and tour is a piece of history. “I’m not looking to have my name out front on this,” he told me, “and we’re not just going to play music from the new album. We don’t have forever to do this.” Listeners can thus expect old and new songs, all delivered by the greatest bluegrass players of the modern era.

If you’ve been to the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, you will perhaps have heard this star-studded ensemble before, but never quite like this. Firstly, that’s typically a single performance. On this tour, the group will have the advantage of playing multiple shows back to back, which is a great way to develop an even deeper understanding of one another and the music. Secondly, Fleck shared with me the news that thanks to some high-tech in-ear monitors (IEMs, or, more prosaically, fancy earbuds), the instruments will be amplified through microphones rather than pickups. The nuances of acoustic instruments are sometimes lost when routed through the amps and stage monitors you see at rock concerts or outdoor bluegrass shows. With this arrangement, the sound at the Arlington will be as realistic and pristine as you can get, the better to appreciate every fabulous note. 

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or call the box office at (805) 893-3535. Read Charles Donelan’s review of My Bluegrass Heart here .

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Explore Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart in this behind-the-scenes look at his legendary show from the Ryman! Featuring two exclusive performances and insightful interviews, you'll catch a glimpse of Fleck's journey into the making of his Grammy Award-winning bluegrass project.

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Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart

Sun 04 February 2024

Stage time / 6:30pm

Doors / 5:00pm

Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 16 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. 

But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart. The Grammy award-winning album, My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive , and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Michael Cleveland, mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull, celebrated multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz, and the amazing Bryan Sutton on guitar.

17:00 Venue doors (Bars and Foyer) 18:00 Auditorium open 18:30 Stage time (Concert start). The concert will be in 2 sets with an interval.

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My Bluegrass Heart – Béla Fleck

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After a career that’s taken him from abject grassicana with the New Grass Revival to jazz, fusion, funk, classical, and world music alike, Béla Fleck returns to his first love with his first fully realized bluegrass album in some 20 years, My Bluegrass Heart . All instrumental and boasting an outstanding array of guest artists — Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, David Grisman, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Tony Trischka, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Mark Schatz and members of the Punch Brothers — it boasts the same deft instrumental interplay that all his albums are known for, whether with his band The Flecktones, his wife and musical collaborator Abigail Washburn, or his legendary recordings with the late jazz great Chick Corea.

In that regard, this sprawling two disc set is more than merely a series of retreads of traditional tunes. Although many of its selections give the impression of having been recorded live and in the moment, the precision found in the overall performances make it clear that this is a highly astute group of pickers and players, all of whom represent the best musicians heard today, regardless of genre. So too, songs such as Baptist Pumpkin Farm, Vertigo, Boulderdash,Us Chickens, and Sour Grapes — among the many — convey not only the clarity but the absolute exhilaration shared by this all-star ensemble at literally every turn. So too, the contrast between the more playful passages found in the fiddle medley Hunky Dory and the reverential Psalm 136 make that versatility absolutely clear.

In the extensive liner notes that accompany the album, Fleck refers to the album as the third part of a trilogy that began with 1988’s Drive, and continued eleven years later with 1999’s Bluegrass Sessions . Granted, it’s been a a long time between outings, but the fact that it utilizes members of the house band that performs every year at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival gave him a core group that he could count on to deliver the material with the dexterity that each offering called for. Consequently, Fleck approaches this project with the same energy and ambition that’s spurred every outing he’s ever been a part of. The underlying dynamic shared in songs such as Charm School, Hug Point , and the extended Strider, make that particular point especially clear. The music often conveys changes in tone and tempo, but the inherent energy and emotion remain intact.

Naturally, Fleck himself shines at the fore, with his deft banjo playing being the defining element in each entry. Still, it’s the remarkable cohesion between all the musicians that make this music sound both studied and spontaneous all at the same time.

This is, in fact, one of the most daring and exploratory efforts of Fleck’s famously ambitious career. It’s both remarkable and resolute, stretching boundaries but staying faithful to the rootsy regimen that people like John Hartford, John McEuen, Bill Keith, and David Grisman established early on. Clearly then, My Bluegrass Heart emanates from an origin suggested by the title. For anyone even remotely interested in bluegrass style or its sources, its nothing less than absolutely essential.

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My Bluegrass Heart

Sunday 4 February 2024, 18:30

Béla Fleck banjo, composer, bandleader Michael Cleveland fiddle Sierra Hull mandolin Justin Moses multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz bass, multi-instrumentalist Bryan Sutton guitar

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Over the last four decades, Béla Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 16 Grammys in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. But his roots are in bluegrass, and that’s where he returns with his first bluegrass tour in 24 years, My Bluegrass Heart .

The Grammy award-winning album, My Bluegrass Heart is the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album, Drive , and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions .

Fleck’s band will spotlight a multi-generational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy Awards and nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Michael Cleveland , mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull , celebrated multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses , bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz , and the amazing Bryan Sutton on guitar.

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Sierra Hull on her exciting journey to bluegrass stardom and beyond

On march 23, 2024, the breakout bluegrass star joins well-regarded americana artist gabe lee at nashville's basement east.

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Six-time International Bluegrass Music Association award-winning mandolinist and singer-songwriter Sierra Hull occupies an intriguing spot at the intersection between roots music and rock stardom.

On March 23, the native of Byrdstown, Tennessee joins well-regarded Americana artist Gabe Lee at the Basement East for a show more in tune with 1970s-era pop-alternative folk rock than anything familiar to the mainstream-adjacent traditions of Americana or bluegrass music.

When an award-winning and experienced acoustic musician (she played the Grand Ole Opry at the age of 10 and Carnegie Hall two years later) begins playing music with a full band, it's often presumed that they're looking to cause a wild shock to the established system of their career.

Or, if more attuned to the 125-year history of work in which now full-band frontwoman Sierra Hull's work is rooted, she joins an intellectually curious set of peerless musicians whose ability to bridge jazz, rock and soul into Appalachian-borne folk, gospel and old-time music has superseded bluegrass and country music's genre lines.

'Learning, growing and developing' into her finest art

What she describes to The Tennessean as being born artistically into a "warm and welcoming" bluegrass community allowed her to share winning an IBMA award at 19 years of age with over two dozen other female artists as the "Daughters of Bluegrass."

That community was crafted as such by artists like bluegrass godfather Bill Monroe, who was once famously noted as saying, "If you can play my music, you can play anything."

A decade later, taking her early success and statements like Monroe's to heart, she's still "learning, growing and developing" into her finest art.

Since 2008, she's released a solo album for Rounder Records an average of once every four years. That work has stood alongside her collaborating with fellow multiple-time IBMA award-winner (and Grammy-winning) bluegrass artist Molly Tuttle, iconic late "Rocky Top" performer and mandolinist Bobby Osborne and jazz-inspired bluegrassers like banjo player Béla Fleck.

Notably, "Secrets" and "Daybreak," her first two Rounder Records albums, also feature Alison Krauss and Barry Bales as producers. That tandem is best regarded for their four decades of work together in groundbreaking roots-to-country crossover act Alison Krauss & Union Station.

"My musical world has constantly been expanded meaningfully," Hull continues.

'I'm just playing the music I'm hearing in my head'

She's spent the past five of those years also blending her collegiate work at Berklee College of Music into her art. As a touring artist, songwriter and bandleader, her Grammy-nominated 2020-released album "25 Trips" sounds like introspective and soulful acoustic rock more than anything else.

Similar to her IBMA-award-winning victory a decade ago, two dozen artists are also at play in this album's creation. However, the album's most significant victory is Hull's emergence as a solo artist capable of being serviced by many creators instead of being one of many artists contributing to a mix.

Her growth as a songwriter has led her to think beyond bluegrass, folk and old-time music's constructs to craft music that lures crowds that are not well-versed in acoustic sound traditions. She's quick to cite that concerts like the one with her and Gabe Lee at Basement East to Billy Strings at Bridgestone Arena will feature crowds who would've likely felt out of place at a Bill Monroe or Ralph Stanley concert in prior generations.

The opportunity for bluegrass' stereotypes ("Doc Watson and Larry Sparks singing about [things like] the little cabin home on the hill because they, indeed lived in a little cabin home on a hill") to comfortably and naturally blend with modern-era authenticity requires a revised look at what "honest lyricism" looks like in the genre, adds Hull.

On "25 Trips"' "Beautifully Out of Place," she sings, "How long is it gonna take me/To trust myself?"

The album's closer, "Father Time," is about Hull watching her husband, fellow musician Justin Fields, care for his Alzheimer's disease-stricken grandmother. She sings, "Little somethings from the past/That make us cry and make us laugh/Oh they almost bring her back."

Yes, it's bluegrass, but it's also something more.

The artist continues that "relatable music" adjacent to bluegrass' traditions doesn't necessarily have its comfortable genre or niche yet. However, Hull is hopeful that in her work, which progresses many genres ahead, artists caught in the metaphorical folds of time re-emerging and linking multiple generations of work can occur.

Hull cites a tie between her work and that of jazz and progressive rock guitarist — and International Bluegrass Music Hall of Famer — Tony Rice and an artist like Bill Monroe as one quickly drawn by fans who take the time to invest themselves in her work.

"Just like Monroe and Earl Scruggs — and so many other fantastic, similarly spirited musicians through the generations — I'm just playing the music I'm hearing in my head."

An 'exciting' future

Those "fantastic" musicians are like Hull, simultaneously virtuoso creatives and instrumentalists whose ability to harmonize, improvise and innovate in equal measure. Thus, for her, the ability to both absorb art that exists and visualize where she's best able to create in a rarefied space without comparison is important.

Simply put, she's an artist capable of making anything. With 25 years of legendary experience behind her, she's arrived at crafting music in a space beyond known constructs.

In the same sentence, she cites Beyoncé, classical violinist Hillary Hahn, multi-Hall of Famer Dolly Parton, Americana icon John Prine and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter as her current inspirations.

Her next quarter-century of success could easily eclipse the incredible acclaim she's achieved in the past 25 years.

"I'm a mandolin picker and singer-songwriter with guitar roots who comfortably explores many musical scenes. Having so many fresh, acoustic [metaphorical] voices in my music is exciting."

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