Episode 60 - Bela Fleck - Always Becoming: Béla Fleck’s Journey of Curiosity
Update: 2025-08-18
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In this banjo-fueled episode of What’s the Reason for This?, Kodi chats with the one-and-only Béla Fleck 🪕✨ — a living legend who has reinvented bluegrass, jazz, classical, and everything in between.
Here’s what you’ll hear:
- 🎶 New Grass Revival origins → the misunderstood meaning of “newgrass” and how it shaped a generation 🌱🎵
- 🪕 Béla’s musical curiosity → blending bluegrass with jazz 🎷, Celtic 🎻, classical 🎼, and even Shakira’s rhythms 💃
- 🔄 Constant reinvention → from traditional roots to the adventurous Béla Fleck Beat Trio 🥁🎸
- 🌍 Collaborations across cultures → finding freshness by stepping into new musical worlds 🌏✨
- 💡 Wisdom for musicians → stay humble 🙏, embrace mistakes 🤷, keep experimenting 🔥, and always find your own voice 🎤
Béla reminds us that music is a living conversation — passed around, reinterpreted, and made new every time 🎶➡️🎶. Even as a Mount Rushmore figure of the banjo ⛰🪕, he’s still chasing curiosity, inspiration, and the joy of discovery. 🌟
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