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Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1977) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet, experimental group The Wu Force, [2] and as a duo with her husband Béla Fleck.
A native of New York City, Fleck was named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Austrian composer Anton Webern, and the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. [4] He was drawn to the banjo at a young age when he heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies television show [5] and when he heard "Dueling Banjos" by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell on the radio.
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is an American jazz fusion band that is known for its eclectic style and instrumentation, combining jazz improvisation with progressive bluegrass, rock, classical, funk, and world music traditions. The Flecktones formed in 1988 when Béla Fleck was invited to perform on the PBS TV series The Lonesome Pine Specials.
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Jeff Stanley Coffin [1] (born August 5, 1965) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. [2]
Music guide: 10 best albums of 2023 include Childers, Stapleton, Bela Fleck. Walter Tunis. ... Sharing production duties with longtime studio pal Dave Cobb and wife Morgane, Stapleton has summoned ...
In 2010, Kouyaté toured with Béla Fleck. Kouyate's wife, Amy Sacko, is also a successful solo artist and sings lead in his band. [2] [4] His father, Mustapha Kouyate, was a ngoni player and his mother Yagaré Damba was a praise singer. [1] Kouyate, together with Amy Sacko and Ngoni ba, appeared at The 2013 Proms. [5]
Caitlin Hale and Angelo Massagli, co-stars from School Of Rock, during their lavish wedding ceremony in New York, 22 years after their iconic movie together.