Bela Fleck's three-movement concerto, named in honor of his son Juno, was recorded with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. While this piece follows the standard concerto form, it is a dazzling showcase for Bela's banjo that will be welcomed by his fans, and already heralded by Bluegrass Today as a breakthrough, genre-crossing work.

For as long as it's existed, the American roots music industry has co-opted Black music into a package to be marketed and resold, defanging or erasing perspectives deemed too threatening along the way. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount resurrects these deep musical strains on his debut record. Named for Anansi-the great trickster of Akan mythology, it features fourteen carefully chosen tracks drawn from Blount's extensive research of Black and...

Rhiannon Giddens' album They're Calling Me Home was recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland. The two expats found themselves drawn to and comforted by the music of their native and adoptive countries of America, Italy, and Ireland, which they recorded at a spare studio on a working farm outside of Dublin. The result is a twelve-song album that speaks to the longing for the comfort of home...

Banjo trailblazer Béla Fleck undergoes his most challenging musical journey so far, into the world of the Symphony Orchestra. Commissioned to compose a major banjo concerto, for banjo and 80 piece symphony orchestra, the famous folk-musician must confront personal, interpersonal, and interdisciplinary obstacles before the sold-out premiere of his work with the Nashville Symphony a year later.