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Béla Fleck, Banjo
Edmar Castañeda, Harp
Antonio Sánchez, Drums
19-time Grammy Award winner Béla Fleck – the world’s premier banjo virtuoso and a celebrated musical adventurer – has both explored his instrument’s complex global history and unlocked the breadth of its possibilities. His remarkable career has taken him all over the musical map in a wide range of solo projects and collaborations.
For over 30 years, he has led Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, the groundbreaking quartet inspired by jazz, funk, bluegrass and beyond. He has written and performed three banjo concertos and traced the African origins of the banjo with the award-winning 2009 documentary Throw Down Your Heart. And his collaborators have included Abigail Washburn, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, Chris Thile, The Blind Boys of Alabama, McCoy Tyner, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer and Rakesh Chaurasia.
Fleck comes to Dublin with his latest project, a new supergroup featuring the acclaimed Columbian harpist Edmar Castañeda and the 5-time Grammy winning Mexican drummer Antonio Sánchez. Formed in 2024, BEATrio found its sound during a special twelve-show run at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, where the band fearlessly explored new, original music, most of it collaboratively written. Now the group embarks nightly on explorations that audiences will find irresistible – rich with strong melodies, gorgeous harmonies and sinuous grooves. This will be their first performance in Ireland. Unmissable.
Presented by the Waltons New School of Music
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Venue Information - The National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall sits proudly on Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin’s city centre and is home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Music Network and Music Generation. Next door to the picturesque Iveagh Gardens and in the heart of a commercial district known as the National Concert Hall Quarter, it hosts over 1000 events per annum. Its mission, to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.