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Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is a Jewish American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

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  • Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is a Jewish American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
  • Béla Fleck (b. 1958) is a Grammy Award-winning banjo player famous for performing in several genres of music, including country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical and folk. As a soloist, and with his group The Flecktones, he has performed with the likes of Dave Matthews Band, Evelyn Glennie and Joshua Bell. He appeared on Sesame Street in a segment introduced in voice-over by Count von Count to play the "rarely performed" so-called "Concerto for Banjo and Two Chickens: Pluck and Pluck" (which is actually "The Blue Danube" waltz by Johann Strauss II). (EKA: Episode 3842)
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  • Fleck, Béla
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  • 1958-07-10(xsd:date)
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  • Béla Fleck (b. 1958) is a Grammy Award-winning banjo player famous for performing in several genres of music, including country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical and folk. As a soloist, and with his group The Flecktones, he has performed with the likes of Dave Matthews Band, Evelyn Glennie and Joshua Bell. He appeared on Sesame Street in a segment introduced in voice-over by Count von Count to play the "rarely performed" so-called "Concerto for Banjo and Two Chickens: Pluck and Pluck" (which is actually "The Blue Danube" waltz by Johann Strauss II). (EKA: Episode 3842) He also appears with the same two chickens in a celebrity montage of "Sing."
  • Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is a Jewish American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
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