Celebrity Series Presents: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at Berklee Performance Center

Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck is possibly the only musician ever to be nominated for Grammy Awards in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, composition, and world music categories. Join Fleck and the extraordinary first line-up of his incredible combo 'Béla Fleck & The Flecktones,' with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/drumitarist Roy "Futureman" Wooten. 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...

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Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck is possibly the only musician ever to be nominated for Grammy Awards in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, composition, and world music categories. Join Fleck and the extraordinary first line-up of his incredible combo 'Béla Fleck & The Flecktones,' with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/drumitarist Roy "Futureman" Wooten. 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. Simply put, it is The Flecktones, the music made only when these four individuals come together.

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