In the Skaneateles Festival’s 2019 season, music lovers will have the opportunity to hear some of the most prominent musicians in their respective genres — classical, jazz, and folk alike.
Bela Fleck
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Jazz Fest 2018, Day 5: Daniel reviews Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, House of Waters, and Partikel
You won’t hear anyone else like New York City’s House of Waters at this year’s Jazz Festival. Singularly hypnotic, the trio features the hammered dulcimer playing of Max ZT, who takes what is primarily known here in America as an Appalachian folk instrument and turns it into a multicultural mashup of East meets West. During […]
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Seal, Bela Fleck, and Alison Krauss among XRIJF 2018 headliners
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and no, we aren’t talking ’bout Xmas or even Festivus. We mean The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival when jazz artists as well as musicians of all stripes descend upon our fair city for nine days in the summer. Well, the bigwigs at the XRIJF have just […]
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‘The Impostor’ finds a place
Béla Fleck is having an incredible start to 2016. The banjoist and composer, along with his wife and fellow banjoist, Abigail Washburn, is fresh from a Grammy win for “Best Folk Album,” and his second banjo concerto, subtitled “Juno,” is slated for its premiere on March 19 with the Canton Symphony Orchestra. It would be […]
