The Gig

The Gig

Crossing the Tracks

A Béla Fleck pod, and some Big Ears panels

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Nate Chinen
Mar 18, 2026
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With Béla Fleck at Vintage Instruments, Dec. 12, 2025. (Joseph V. Labolito / WRTI)

Complete the analogy: Béla Fleck is to the banjo as [who] is to [what].

Kicking around this thought experiment the other day, I first came up with Yo-Yo Ma and the cello, but quickly discarded that option. It shouldn’t just be about preeminence on an instrument, and cellist…

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