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Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck Carry Appalachian Wisdom Into a Disconnected Age

5x Grammy-winning soprano Renée Fleming and 19x Grammy-winning banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck have unveiled “My Epitaph,” the second single from their forthcoming collaboration album Th...

Moonshiner’s Ball Unveils 12th Annual Artist Lineup: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Béla Fleck, Fruition and More

On Oct. 8-11, the Moonshiner’s Ball will return to the Rockcastle Riverside in Livingston, Ky., for its 12th annual gathering. This year’s lineup presents a four-way intersection o...

New Music from the Inbox: Bela Fleck, Tove Styrke, José González, and more!

Artist: RoreySong: Temporary Tragedy Rorey explains the Temporary Tragedy is about “the cost of self abandonment when you grip intimacy, and what it means to choose yourself. I was...

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck “My Epitaph” – remember me this way

The Fiddle And The Drum is the new collaborative album from Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, and My Epitaph is the latest single from it. Originally written and recorded by Appalachia...

Bluegrass Innovator Sierra Hull Releases Her Long-Awaited Three-Part Concerto ‘The Movements’ on April 10

Sierra Hull has always operated at the intersection of technical mastery and genuine musical curiosity, and ‘The Movements’ is where those instincts converge most completely. Commi...

Railroad Earth’s Hillberry Music Festival to Feature Performances by Old Crow Medicine Show, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Hea...

The Hillberry Music Festival has unveiled an initial list of the first-round musical guests, who have signed on to play and participate in the October 7-11, 2026 event at The Farm...

Big Ears Festival Day 4, Sunday, 3/29/2026

By Sarah “Flake” Grosser and Richard Blute(*) Julian Lage QuartetTennessee Theatre Julian Lage has a couple of mighty fine carpets on stage. The whole layout is a rath...

Dida Pelled, Carla Bley, Harry Skoler, Joachim Kühn, Ben Flocks, Joe Webb

Jump into a time-traveling playlist that brings a spectacular 1984 recording by Carla Bley back to the future, at the end of a generations-bridging ride where emerging artists mode...

The Riff That Blew My Mind: Troy Mercy Attends the Fairport Convention

Blues Unusualist Troy Mercy (former guitarist with Booker T and The Fabulous Thunderbirds) has trouble choosing just one lick, but settles on "Tam Lin" by Fairport Convention. Troy...

Watch: Al Di Meola Tests Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger” Guitar, Dickey Betts’ Fillmore Played 1958 Les Paul and Trey Anastasio’s...

Photo Credit: Screenshot via Al Di Meola on Facebook Artful six-string innovator Al Di Meola has been testing out some famous axes. In a series of posts shared on social media, the...

Flea’s Honora at Toronto’s Opera House

Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ bassist goes back to his roots. Michael Balzary began his musical journey as a boy, becoming fascinated with jazz artists like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong...

The Klezmatics Can't Do Without Their Bach Stradivarius Trumpet

Frank London of GRAMMY-winning klezmer group The Klezmatics told us about his love for his Bach Stradivarius... Frank London: A trumpet is very personal, it is the one piece of equ...

Anthony Garone, Claudio Scolari, Jason Kruk, Mohini Dey, Tom Kennedy, Miles Davis and Chick Corea

We open with some fiery new music from drummer Jason Kruk with guitarist Wayne Krantz fromBeyond The Veil, and from German guitarist Sinan Cem Eroglu plus Greg Spero and Mohini Dey...

Tommy Emmanuel: Finding Common Ground On Guitar

Tommy Emmanuel began his musical career at age 6, playing guitar in his family's band as they busked around the Australian bush more than six decades ago. An invitation from guitar...

“I bent up from the 21st fret and broke the first string – I played the rest of the solo without it”: Hidden for four de...

Celtic rock bagpipe phrasing, THAT blazing arpeggio and a crazy bend that broke a string – learn how Brett Garsed played his solo in this exclusive feature

“Ithought, ‘Is the guitar in open G tuning?’ But I soon discovered it wasn’t a standard guitar at all”: Charlie Starr on...

The Blackberry Smoke guitarist gives us a lesson in how to sound like you've got a B-Bender, even if you don't

3 Modern Artists Who Are Carrying the Torch of Classic Bluegrass

3 Modern Artists Who Are Carrying the Torch of Classic Bluegrass

Mary Lucey of TANASI Can't Do Without Her Jason Romero Clawhammer Banjo

Mary Lucey of worldgrass trio TANASI told us about her love for her Jason Romero clawhammer banjo... Mary Lucey: For my 30th birthday, my husband and bandmate, Billy, gifted me a g...

Fergus McCreadie, Michael Formanek, Leïla Olivesi, Mark Turner, Orlando le Fleming

Here is music born in a remote cottage in the Outer Hebrides, or rethinking how the Hammond organ fits within a large, adventurous ensemble; music that celebrates Corsica, or bring...

Brian Lynch, Bebel Gilberto, and Do Yeon Kim

This episode has an international flavor, incorporating music from Brazil, China and Korea as well as the usual sources. Musicians heard include, Brian Lynch, Don Ellis, Bebel Gilb...

Ben Wendel: Assembling The Mallet Avengers

Today, The Tonearm's needle drops on saxophonist and composer Ben Wendel.Ben is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and co-founder of Kneebody, with a discography that covers...

Bellows Announces New Double Album Que Bello!: Hear Four Tracks

The Brooklyn-based musician Oliver Kalb makes acoustic DIY music under the name Bellows. His records are simultaneously homespun and ambitious. You can tell that you’re hearing one...

Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, Jake Baxendale, Fie Schouten, Samuel Torres

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--selections from new releases by trumpeter Brian Lynch; Greenhouse Ensemble; vocalist Julia Keefe and her Indigenou...