Tim Weed is used to the funny looks he gets when he tells people he plays classical music on the five-string banjo. In particular, he remembers the reaction he got from a European media mogul when he ...

The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music. Fleck will be the featured artist with the Louisiana ...

Bela Fleck will perform his "Banjo Concerto" with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. (Contributed photo) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The next Huntsville Symphony Orchestra concert ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

What in the holy name of Earl Scruggs is a banjo doing in the middle of a 36-piece classical orchestra? The quick answer: trying to blend in - and not to blend in - at the same time On Sunday night, ...

It’s a well-documented fact that Tucson music fans crave new sounds and are willing to keep their ears, as well as their minds, wide open when it comes to inventive musical hybrids. So Tim ...

Apollon Musagète Quartet, the dynamic young Polish chamber ensemble, performs a program of music by Schubert and Shostakovich at Jorgensen Performing Arts Center on the UConn campus in Storrs, ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

Two banjos and one orchestra? Bela Fleck brings his banjo concerto “The Imposter” to the Brevard Music Center June 28 for a night that will include a performance with wife Abigail Washburn and much ...

Banjo superstar and 16-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck can jam with just about anybody. With bluegrass icons like Earl Scruggs. With jazz musicians. With African thumb piano players. With Indian tabla ...