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 ...

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 Flecktones were well aware of when they released ...

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, ...

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Originally released in 2008 on Rounder Records, Bela Fleck' Jingle All The Way is an accurate microcosm of the deceptive whimsy the group displays on stage during the best moments of their live ...

Named Bass Player magazine’s “Bass Player of the Year” three years in a row, Wooten has also been involved with the Chick Corea Elektric Band and SMV (with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller), as well ...

Holiday magic is in the air and Béla Fleck & The Flecktones brought their own version with their “Jingle All the Way” tour to the Brown County Music Center on November 28, 2025. ‘Tis the season after ...

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The last time I saw a Bela Fleck performance was two summers ago at a festival in Tennessee. At this particular festival each of the stages that artists performed upon were given names like, ?Which ...

When: 9:30 p.m. June 29. What: "Newgrass" mixes bluegrass, jazz, folk and jam styles. Who: Bela Fleck on banjo; Jeff Coffin on sax; Victor Wooten on bass; and RoyEl "FutureMan" Wooten on drumitar.

Even though their leader plays the banjo, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones function as a small jazz combo. On their 2000 studio album, "Outbound," however, the quartet brought in so many guest musicians ...