Dan Smalls Presents

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Bela Fleck & Victor Wooten

All Ages
at Academy of Music
274 Main St, Northampton, MA 01060
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Just in case you aren’t familiar with BÉLA FLECK, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Béla, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings. Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, VICTOR WOOTEN is known as an innovator on the bass guitar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. Victor has won most every major award given to a bass guitarist. He was voted Bassist of the year by Bass Player Magazine three times and is the only person to have won the award more than once. As long time collaborators in their Grammy winning band Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, these virtuosos made music where all manners of genres come into play – from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances. Now this groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck and bass guitar innovator Victor Wooten are teaming up to perform a few special duo shows for the first time in their long storied careers.

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