Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart
Featuring Michael Cleveland, fiddle; Dominick Leslie, mandolin; Jeff Partin, dobro; Mark Schatz, bass; and Jake Stargel, guitar
Few artists have reshaped an instrument the way Béla Fleck has transformed the banjo. Over the last four decades, Fleck has made a point of boldly going where no banjo player has gone before, a musical journey that has earned him 19 Grammys in nine different fields, including country, pop, jazz, instrumental, classical, and world music. But his roots are in bluegrass, which is where he returns with My Bluegrass Heart, the name of both his latest project and his 2022 Grammy winner for Best Bluegrass Album.
The project brings together legendary musicians and a new generation of virtuosic players in a joyful, deeply collaborative celebration of tradition and innovation. At its core, My Bluegrass Heart is about connection — between past and present, friends and collaborators, and the communal experience of making music together.
The album My Bluegrass Heart was the third chapter of a trilogy which began with the 1988 album Drive and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band spotlights a multigenerational gamut of the best of bluegrass players, all sporting a myriad of Grammy nominations, as well as gigantic piles of IBMA awards for their instruments: fiddler Michael Cleveland, mandolinist Dominick Leslie, Jeff Partin on dobro, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz, and Jake Stargel on guitar.
Category A $75 | Category B $50 | Category C $30
$10 students with ID and youth 18 and under
$10 students with ID and youth 18 and under
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