Musically omnivorous banjo player — and 19-time Grammy winner — Béla Fleck is a favorite of Athens audiences and critics worldwide. He returns to Hodgson Concert Hall Friday, September 18th at 7:30 with My Bluegrass Heart, a project that finds him and five other first-rate musicians pushing the boundaries of the genre where he started.
The Grammy Award-winning album, My Bluegrass Heart, is the third chapter of a trilogy beginning with the 1988 album, Drive, and continued in 1991 with The Bluegrass Sessions. Fleck’s band spotlights a multi-generational gamut of the best bluegrass players, all sporting myriad Grammy Awards and nominations and IBMA awards. His collaborators on this program include fiddler Michael Cleveland, mandolinist Dominick Leslie, Jeff Partin on dobro, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mark Schatz, and Jake Stargel on guitar.
For tickets to Béla Fleck at Hodgson Concert Hall, visit PAC.UGA.EDU, or call the box office Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at (706) 542-4400. The new UGA Presents season also includes bluegrass mandolinist Sierra Hull in March and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder in May.
