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Bela Fleck with Brooklyn Rider

Bela Fleck with Brooklyn Rider
Banjoist/composer Bela Fleck has performed on seven different occasions at SMF, each time with distinctly different projects. His 2015 appearance will be no exception, as he joins forces with the acclaimed string quartet Brooklyn Rider during their 2015 SMF residency. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” The musicians play in concert halls and clubs, in venues as varied as Joe’s Pub in New York City, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Todai-ji Temple in Japan, the Library of Congress and SxSW. In addition to multiple performances, Brooklyn Rider will be teaching young musicians during SMF’s Acoustic Music Seminar. Of this new collaboration, Bela Fleck remarks: “After doing my research on string quartets, a powerful tide pushed me towards Brooklyn Rider, one of the very special groups playing in this format today. They play a lot of new music, and the format of banjo with string quartet was so compelling that we decided to create a whole night of music and tour with it.” Fleck has written several new compositions for the ensemble, which will be showcased at this concert.
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