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Bela Fleck & The Original Flecktones at Keswick Theatre
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on May 20, 2016
Where
Keswick Theatre
Easton Road And Keswick Avenue
Glenside, PA
Map
215-572-7650
When
Fri, June 3, 2016
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Bla Fleck has reconvened the original 'Bela Fleck & The Flecktones', the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. Rocket Science marks the first recording by the first fab four Flecktones in almost two decades, with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/ Drumitarist Roy Futureman Wooten. Far from being a wistful trip back in time, the album sees the Grammy Award-winning quartet creating some of the most forward thinking music of their long, storied career. While all manners of genres come into play from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances the result is an impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable...