My first time listening to hybrid bluegrass, I must say the merging of styles is most impressive. I enjoyed the merging of old-time collaboration with bluegrass
One of my favorite performances of all time was Béla Fleck performing Big Country in Ireland for TS5. I think it stands for Transatlantic Session 5. It's an absolute masterpiece. Find it if you aren't already familiar.
I’ve been to a lot of concerts in my life. Their concert was by my favorite. The acoustics, the warmth, the connection, all came together to be one of my absolute favorite moments of live music.
OMG Bela Fleck. I listened to his albums decades ago. He is awesome. Can't wait to hear the flailing by Abigail. It's so nice to hear people today who are expert musicians. Loving it. Beautiful. Nice vocals. Nice clogging. I have to check out Uncle Earl now. Thanks. You've both exposed me to another delightful side of the world of music.
This is absolutely incredible. I love the blend of these styles and watching you two play together inspires me to share this magic with other people. Thank you
Incredible. Abigail and Joanna Newsome have very similar styles of singing. Bela is legendary. Wonderful dry humor. What a couple. Thanks for the post.
17:00 Best analogy for the two , compelling , "opposing" banjo styles, like the masterful Earl Scruggs, rolls, and Mother Maybelle Carter, scratch! This was a beautiful performance, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn and Paste Magazine! BTW , Clogging is so amazing!
I love Abigail and her playing not to mention her beautiful voice. Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt got me here. Can't get enough. Now I i'm into Bela Fleck too. The banjo is a very energetic instrument.
There is something haunting about a well played clawhammer banjo. Abigail really makes it talk. Merging the two styles is no small feat. The marriage of two true Masters.
I enjoyed listening to this delightful couple - I would be interested in hearing them with Bonnie Raitt on acoustic slide guitar - that would be unusual ! Someone posted up saying they didn't like her voice - well I do like her voice - so there !
I'm currently playing The Witcher, and listening to the second song just makes me smile XD the mood just fits my adventures in that game lol Beautiful game, beautiful song.
The story Bela tells about finding an enormous, huge bass banjo in a music store when he was on tour is so cute: He said he knew he'd married the right woman, because when he sheepishly called home to get a feel for whether she'd be mad if he bought it, as soon as he described it she just said "don't come home without it!" 😁
Or the geographical reverse :-). Or neither - homesick overflows in their love and music, wherever we find ourselves. How good to have such food for the journey Home.
Watch his documentary Throw Down Your Heart. It’s here on RUclips in potato quality, but serviceable. He travels through Africa playing with local performers and learning the history of regional music.
The sound of this jam carries me away down a long winding road in a stagecoach through a beautiful mysterious land of the past. Mist in the morning over rolling hills.
I learned to play five string banjo back in the seventies by turning down old Carl Jackson and Glen Campbell records to half speed...then Earl Scruggs came out with Song Booklet and Record and I thought I found heaven...people today have access to a thousand teachers on line and you have no idea how fortunate you are...I will say this, I have adored Bela's playing back to his time with Newgrass Revival and they played here at Carlisle Bluegrass outside Hamilton, Ontario...they will remember it as the four day rain festival when nobody stopped dancing and carrying on for four days in front of the stage...a total mud bowl...I didn't care for the direction Bela took with the Flecktones, to each his own, but I am glad he has gotten back to traditional sounds here ...by the way the Transatlantic sessions were awesome..Big Country I think it was, awesome tune, with the lute etc. just my thoughts ..to each his own...and I was inspired by all of your Humanitarian work Bela...God Bless
Hey bird we meet finally. Love it. Danny D. Come to Woodstock and let’s hang as we did 50 years ago. You should still have my email. Isn’t this awesome. Remember Blue Ridge and the blazers.
So sweet. My interest in the banjo just went up a few notches thanks to these two charming musicians and some Steve Martin videos I stumbled on tonight. Thank you.....
I can only guess at what effect it has on their kids to hear mom and dad cranking amazing tunes in their living room. I came to follow both of these musicians before they were married but have since become even more fascinated to hear them as a couple. It's pretty wonderful.
I really appreciate the panning, makes it much easier to hear the different parts from each of these lovely players. The reverb was a little thick for my taste, I thought it made it sound a little bit unnatural but I can understand the choice. Amazing playing! Thanks for having them on and sharing with the world!
Haunted ABBA why were you not sweet and dear..BOOKS the invisible within someone's INNER hand wrote......pop...... now look at a banjo.......INNERS.? BOO.dats right. BUT BEYOND AND DAT. Cgjj Chun xrg has coach TV caving cfgvcc TV to BUTTERFLY sings also .....eye BALL.... Abigail talking but the rest......
Overly wanky typewriter bs in my opinion. Really just doesn't work. If you want to play old-time music, play old-time. If you want to play bluegrass, play bluegrass
hello I'm RoseCovered 🥀GasMask And I'm gunna make EGM Electronic bluegrass Music Béla you were close let's turn some heads in the FfUtuRE Love to bluegrass music Love to Electronic music Love to all....🥀
It's too bad that the great Earl Scruggs is not alive to see this. He literally invented the three finger picking style of banjo playing. He was the Mozart of the banjo.
Do yourselves a favor and find some Clarence Ashley. He was an excellent clawhammer banjo player from very early in American music history (I think 20's or 30's).
The older I get, the less patience I have for current auto-tuned junk, and the more respect I have for talented musicians like this. I suspect I'm turning into a curmudgeon.
Wonderful duo. I appreciate not only your excellent musicianship, but also your social justice awareness. Thank you for the beautiful and heartfelt music.
I professed my love for Abigail soon after she got back from China (unsuccessfully I might add, I never had a chance). I am so glad she ended up with Bela. Their journey together has turned into something of legend. There has never been such a "married" sound to mix musical ideas from every corner of the world. When i hear their music I think of a not yet-existent place where opposing ideas flow as a more perfect melodic reality.
Well, they are marvelous, but it's not really new. Earl and John McEuen did it on Soldier's Joy on the first Circle album and that was marvelous, also !
I love your playing together! it is really wonderful to hear 3-finger playing and claw-hammer together. the contrasting tones of the two instruments is wonderful too!
They are very very special indeed. Such accomplished musicians and their music is ecstatic.
My first time listening to hybrid bluegrass, I must say the merging of styles is most impressive. I enjoyed the merging of old-time collaboration with bluegrass
Big country hits me right in the feels. And regardless what they say about different styles they sound amazing together.
What wonderful music. I had a big grin on my face just listening because I can hear the joy of communion. Best wishes from Ireland!
One of my favorite performances of all time was Béla Fleck performing Big Country in Ireland for TS5. I think it stands for Transatlantic Session 5. It's an absolute masterpiece. Find it if you aren't already familiar.
I’ve been to a lot of concerts in my life. Their concert was by my favorite. The acoustics, the warmth, the connection, all came together to be one of my absolute favorite moments of live music.
Music is whatever puts a smile on our faces when we preform it or listen to it... Thank you for the smile.
They make the most incredible music together!
OMG Bela Fleck. I listened to his albums decades ago. He is awesome. Can't wait to hear the flailing by Abigail. It's so nice to hear people today who are expert musicians. Loving it. Beautiful. Nice vocals. Nice clogging. I have to check out Uncle Earl now. Thanks. You've both exposed me to another delightful side of the world of music.
It is the tones and drones, the cumulative sound, heavenly ...
I adore this pure, innovative music derived from tradition yet on the cutting edge.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Thank you!!
This is absolutely incredible. I love the blend of these styles and watching you two play together inspires me to share this magic with other people. Thank you
Thanks Bela & Abigail. That was so refreshing. Such talent!
Yes this as special as we're going to get. Wonderful! Thank you kindly. EARL SCRUGGS!
Incredible. Abigail and Joanna Newsome have very similar styles of singing. Bela is legendary. Wonderful dry humor. What a couple. Thanks for the post.
This was wondrous! Thank you for hosting Bela and Abigail.
Love you both the harmony between the different styles are beautiful. Thank you.
17:00 Best analogy for the two , compelling , "opposing" banjo styles, like the masterful Earl Scruggs, rolls, and Mother Maybelle Carter, scratch! This was a beautiful performance, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn and Paste Magazine! BTW , Clogging is so amazing!
gave me chills to watch/listen, what a gift
Mercy thats good!
Wonderful collaboration!
WONDERFUL!!!💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
Wow, on "Take me back to Harlan" the BANJO playing was great...
WOW. Thanks for that christmas with you two.
Great banjo partnership. Looking forward to hearing you live at the St.Catharines First Ontario Performing Arts Centre on April 10, 2024.
Nice counter balance between the two styles. Love it!
What a beautiful voice Miss Abigail has..
Bloody amazing 💜 😘 🤗 👍 🌻
I love Abigail and her playing not to mention her beautiful voice. Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt got me here. Can't get enough. Now I i'm into Bela Fleck too.
The banjo is a very energetic instrument.
Magical! Loved it!
So good!
There is something haunting about a well played clawhammer banjo. Abigail really makes it talk. Merging the two styles is no small feat. The marriage of two true Masters.
Its the drones moving around the ear
Their two ways of playing, together, thin and thick, makes blue bells joyfully weep!
No kidding!😮❤🎉😂
The voice of Abbigail is also not stranger to this phenomenon imho
Literal marriage!
Two fine artists, dear people...and great parents. If you like your beautiful art to come from lovely people look no further.
Finally a real dueling banjos!
I enjoyed listening to this delightful couple - I would be interested in hearing them with Bonnie Raitt on acoustic slide guitar - that would be unusual ! Someone posted up saying they didn't like her voice - well I do like her voice - so there !
Bela is playing very supportive, nice job that is so hard.
This gives me hope to the future of music. Amazing....
OLE OLE Y OLE!!!
SI SEÑOR!!!
I'm currently playing The Witcher, and listening to the second song just makes me smile XD the mood just fits my adventures in that game lol
Beautiful game, beautiful song.
I liked the vocal, jazzy and edgy, with a bit of breathy quality. :)
Bravo 👏
I like the natural 🌱 way
Abigail plays beautifully! It's likely the metal finger picks Bela uses, but her sound is softer.
Also I think her banjo has an animal skin, while Bela's banjo has a plastic skin.
❤🎵
Did he ever play with Steve Martin? That would’ve been interesting.
Such a warm sound - do they use nylon strings?
That was fantastic..Abigails voice is amazing and she Is even more beautiful when she’s on the banjo..pulls you in..guy on the banjo was ok..😂
I hear no conflict in those two playing styles.
My new Jubilee is out for delivery as I type this.
These two should mate, and create a super banjo player. Only question is, will the universe be ready for it?
They do have a child.
His name is Noam Pikelny
@@carriereecer4848 they have 2.
True.. they are beautiful children too!
And I’m married to Bela
Bella u r one lucky banjo plucker but the music is other worldly takes two
Abigail is such an amazing rhythm player . She is the perfect foil for Bela's pyrotechnics.
Michael Jordan is the Bela Fleck of Basketball
LeBron could not be since he lacks style
Bela is the fleck of bela fleck
She can do it all!
The story Bela tells about finding an enormous, huge bass banjo in a music store when he was on tour is so cute: He said he knew he'd married the right woman, because when he sheepishly called home to get a feel for whether she'd be mad if he bought it, as soon as he described it she just said "don't come home without it!" 😁
decades ago dancing to BF's tunes i dreamed he would find this partner... best match in US musical history in decades.
If you live in Kenya but grew up in Sugar Grove , NC, this just might make you homesick and cry.
Or the geographical reverse :-). Or neither - homesick overflows in their love and music, wherever we find ourselves. How good to have such food for the journey Home.
Watch his documentary Throw Down Your Heart. It’s here on RUclips in potato quality, but serviceable. He travels through Africa playing with local performers and learning the history of regional music.
What I love about the banjo is that it's a *percussive* stringed instrument; the notes have a sort of plunky attack that adds a strong rhythm element.
It's a lot like listening to Mozart, two different melodies welded together. Not just a melody and a harmony.
Dennis you don’t understand Mozart
My mistake, I misread your comment, 1000 apologies,
@@ethandexter8577 lol
Wow! The 2 styles together are phenomenal. Banjo
makes my heart sing.
The sound of this jam carries me away down a long winding road in a stagecoach through a beautiful mysterious land of the past. Mist in the morning over rolling hills.
I learned to play five string banjo back in the seventies by turning down old Carl Jackson and Glen Campbell records to half speed...then Earl Scruggs came out with Song Booklet and Record and I thought I found heaven...people today have access to a thousand teachers on line and you have no idea how fortunate you are...I will say this, I have adored Bela's playing back to his time with Newgrass Revival and they played here at Carlisle Bluegrass outside Hamilton, Ontario...they will remember it as the four day rain festival when nobody stopped dancing and carrying on for four days in front of the stage...a total mud bowl...I didn't care for the direction Bela took with the Flecktones, to each his own, but I am glad he has gotten back to traditional sounds here ...by the way the Transatlantic sessions were awesome..Big Country I think it was, awesome tune, with the lute etc. just my thoughts ..to each his own...and I was inspired by all of your Humanitarian work Bela...God Bless
Man, so much awesome! Loved Bela for a long time. Didn't know about Abigail til now. Wow, just wow. Like Tedeschi Trucks on Banjos.
That was some of the most masterful harmonics I’ve ever heard in a banjo arrangement.
Really beautiful harmony’s guys! ❤ 2:22
I love that rug, it ties the studio together nicely
Dang!! So good, so pure and just beautiful. And not a 100 watt Marshal in sight lol!
Hey bird we meet finally. Love it. Danny D. Come to Woodstock and let’s hang as we did 50 years ago. You should still have my email. Isn’t this awesome. Remember Blue Ridge and the blazers.
So sweet. My interest in the banjo just went up a few notches thanks to these two charming musicians and some Steve Martin videos I stumbled on tonight. Thank you.....
I can only guess at what effect it has on their kids to hear mom and dad cranking amazing tunes in their living room. I came to follow both of these musicians before they were married but have since become even more fascinated to hear them as a couple. It's pretty wonderful.
Pickin at its finest... mordern day "dueling banjos"... kind of.
Her voice sounds just like Joanna Newsom. Very cool
Abigail in the first songs sounds a bit medevil. I love it. i would love to hear Ian Anderson playing an acoustic guitar in that song.
Almost like a sitar
Weeping listening to them together and seeing how they look at each other and make each other smile 😭😭 what intimacy. So beautiful
Sally in the garden is an old Irish tune
Good ol Surry county lived there for 2 years beautiful place in the wonderful blue ridge mountains in North Carolina
I really appreciate the panning, makes it much easier to hear the different parts from each of these lovely players. The reverb was a little thick for my taste, I thought it made it sound a little bit unnatural but I can understand the choice. Amazing playing! Thanks for having them on and sharing with the world!
Pick of the litter :-). Thanks, Paste. Bless you, Bela and Abigail. Heart. Strings.
Haunted ABBA why were you not sweet and dear..BOOKS the invisible within someone's INNER hand wrote......pop...... now look at a banjo.......INNERS.? BOO.dats right. BUT BEYOND AND DAT. Cgjj Chun xrg has coach TV caving cfgvcc TV to BUTTERFLY sings also .....eye BALL.... Abigail talking but the rest......
I really really enjoy these two! Contrasting styles or whatever - they are outstanding banjoists (is that a word?!) Great!
Overly wanky typewriter bs in my opinion. Really just doesn't work. If you want to play old-time music, play old-time. If you want to play bluegrass, play bluegrass
Very Irish folk sounding
hello I'm RoseCovered 🥀GasMask
And I'm gunna make EGM Electronic bluegrass Music Béla you were close let's turn some heads in the FfUtuRE
Love to bluegrass music
Love to Electronic music
Love to all....🥀
Great, but you should call yourselves "fully cooperating banjos" 😄
It's too bad that the great Earl Scruggs is not alive to see this. He literally invented the three finger picking style of banjo playing. He was the Mozart of the banjo.
Lay in the Sunshine lay in my bed
Ant nobody gonna channel my Head
Do yourselves a favor and find some Clarence Ashley. He was an excellent clawhammer banjo player from very early in American music history (I think 20's or 30's).
Interesting tuning Mr. Fleck, I like the warm sound!
The older I get, the less patience I have for current auto-tuned junk, and the more respect I have for talented musicians like this. I suspect I'm turning into a curmudgeon.
just wow they're wonderful
Grief Tankie I feel the same way.
Hello, fellow curmudgeon.
Grief Tankie, nah, you ain’t! You already one!
@@byronujordan7 Damn right!
Wonderful duo. I appreciate not only your excellent musicianship, but also your social justice awareness. Thank you for the beautiful and heartfelt music.
🌜🌛
AMEN 🙏
I professed my love for Abigail soon after she got back from China (unsuccessfully I might add, I never had a chance). I am so glad she ended up with Bela. Their journey together has turned into something of legend. There has never been such a "married" sound to mix musical ideas from every corner of the world. When i hear their music I think of a not yet-existent place where opposing ideas flow as a more perfect melodic reality.
Well said Sir...
Well, they are marvelous, but it's not really new. Earl and John McEuen did it on Soldier's Joy on the first Circle album and that was marvelous, also !
How wonderful - with deep roots and rich soul!!!
She play he like. He play she like. They spent the night plucking.
The Spirit of the Banjo (even ganja).
"Her style is natural, BUT mine is unnatural" haha excellent!
If anything hes matching her timing. His rolls are matching the frailing. Wow
Wow, Abigail sings and dances at the same time, and picks awesome claw hammer!
Bela is the most awesome Scruggs style picker since Scruggs!
This was incredibly refreshing, to see 2 people embark on such a unique journey of discovery. I am a fan! Love your passion and talent.
I love your playing together! it is really wonderful to hear 3-finger playing and claw-hammer together. the contrasting tones of the two instruments is wonderful too!