Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Background Information
Béla Fleck is a famous virtuoso banjo player and is known for his work with The Flecktones. He once described the band as "a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with roots in folk and bluegrass, funk and jazz." Many songs of the group could be heard during The Weather Channel's Local On The 8s segments.
Performing with the Flecktones, Bela Fleck was awarded with several Grammies. Moreover, he was a nominee in more categories than any other musician (country, folk, pop, spoken word, bluegrass, jazz, classical, as well as arranging and composition).
more In 2007, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones won another Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, "The Hidden Land."
In 2005, Bela Fleck created several new projects. He made records with several African traditional musicians, co-wrote a documentary film, which is called 'Bring it Home' , co-produced Song of the Traveling Daughter, and formed the Acoustic Fusion super-group named TRIO! with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke.
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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will be touring throughout 2007.
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