Edgar Meyer News

Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer Conjure A New Sound Steeped In Indian Tradition, Chamber Music and American Roots With An Unprecedented Collaboration The Melody of Rhythm North American Fall Tour Dates Confirmed Bela Fleck On August 25, E1 Music will release The Melody of Rhythm , an impressive collaboration between banjo virtuoso Bela ...

Bla Fleck, tabla player Zakir Hussain and bassist Edgar Meyer will release the collaborative album The Melody of Rhythm on August 25.

Deja vu probably won't be a problem for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg when she returns this week to perform as part of the 2009 OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville.

It started in 2005 when mandolin innovator Chris Thile decided to form a string quintet to play traditional bluegrass, creative covers and newly composed music.

The names just keep coming with new announcements adding to the already diverse roster of stellar musicians coming to Vancouver Island MusicFest this summer.

Theo Martin Lineberry is a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the Brown School. Every week 'Q-Up' will publish questions and answers from a area teen.

The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra has a full slate for the 2009-10 season, including a Toyota Pops bill featuring Glen Campbell, Ben Vereen and Mary Wilson of the Supremes, plus a Halekulani MasterWorks season spotlighting famous composers, plus a "Mostly Mozart" festival.

Begin with the Indian tabla. Add bluegrass banjo in a contemplative mood. Cue the rollicking bass.

Mark O'Connor, a performer and composer whose career has ranged from bluegrass and country to classical and jazz, will headline the third annual National Fiddler Hall of Fame Gala.

World-renowned bassist Edgar Meyer gave the second to last concert of the 100th anniversary 2008-09 Artist Series at Lawrence Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

Masterful performer and innovative composer Edgar Meyer will give the penultimate concert in Lawrence University's 100th Anniversary Artist Series season tonight, Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

Photos: Greg Kessler Heralded by many as the Charlie Parker of the banjo, Bela Fleck has taken his unprepossessing instrument to places unimagined even by the immediately preceding generation of five-string virtuosos who were his mentors.

The 2009-10 season of the Goshen College Performing Arts Series will again bring top-name musicians, with more than 30 Grammy Awards among them, to the college's Sauder Concert Hall stage.

Three-time Grammy Award winning bassist Edgar Meyer will finish off Lawrence University's 2008-09 Artist Series with a performance at 8 p.m. Friday, in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha's Strauss Performing Arts Center will host Nebraska Bass Day with several events on Saturday, April 4. Renowned double bass soloist Edgar Meyer will offer a master class at 11 a.m. that will end at 1 p.m. Along with the Meyer's class, various other activities, including concerts, bass ensembles and bass showings ...

Zakir Hussain, left, and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. This has already been a banner year for Marin's Ustad Zakir Hussain, and it's barely four months old.

Mark O'Connor won a Grammy Award in 2007 for Best Classical Crossover Album. Listen to his music, though, and "crossover" doesn't begin to describe it.

The Reno Chamber Orchestra has been bringing out-of-area soloists to Northern Nevada for most of its 35-year existence, but few have more impressive credentials than bassist Edgar Meyer, who will be featured ...

The Bee Eaters play Saturday at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland. All still in their 20s, the Massachusetts-based Bee Eaters are making a nationwide splash in the new acoustic scene, using old-school ...

The newly remodeled Alice Tully Hall presents a friendlier, more open face to the public.