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🪕 Grammy Award-winning bluegrass legend Béla Fleck headlining Asheville Amadeus Festival

May 3, 2023 • 
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Musician BĂ©la Fleck holding a banjo.

Fleck is widely regarded as the world’s greatest banjo player and has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in Grammy history (and has won 15 times).

Photo by Alan Messer

During the the Amadeus Festival, Ashevillians can see BĂ©la Fleck:

  1. Perform with the Opal String Quartet on Tuesday, May 16, as part of the Asheville Chamber Music Series
  2. At two Young People’s Concerts on Friday, May 19
  3. Meet with Asheville Symphony Music Director Darko Butorac on Friday, May 19, for a Symphony Talk
  4. Solo in the festival finale, “Masterworks 7: Béla Fleck & Americana,” on Saturday, May 20, 8 p.m. at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium*

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