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    From the net:
    
    BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES
    TOUR SCHEDULE
    
    JULY
    12 Montreux, Switz
    13 Vienna Jazz 
     Vienna, Austria
    17 TBA  
    18 TBA 
    19 TBA
    20 TBA
    21 Pori Jazz Fest
     Pori, Finland
    22 Pori Jazz Fest
     Pori, Finland
    23 Molde Jazz Fest
     Molde, Norway 
    25 Jazz Cafe, London
    29 Paramount Center for the Arts
     Peekskill, NY
    30 Bela Only - 
     Frontier Ranch
     Columbus, OH
    31 Harbour Fest
     Oswego, NY
    
    AUGUST
    2 Birchmere
     Alexandria, VA 
    3 Birchmere
     Alexandria, VA
    5 Planting Fields Arboretum
     Locust Valley, NY
    13 TBA 
    28 Towne Point Jazz
     Norfolk, VA
    31 Avon, CO
    
    SEPTEMBER
    1 Botanic Gardens
     Denver, CO
    2 Botanic Gardens
     Denver, CO
    3 Strawberry
     Sonora, CA
    4 Winery
     Saratoga, CA
    5 Rain Date CO
    9 Filmore West
     San Fran??
    10 Russian River Fest
     Guernville, CA
    13 ? Eugene, OR ?
    14 ? Spokane, WA ?
    15 ? Portland, OR ?
    16 Walla Walla, WA
    17 ? Seattle, WA ?
    18 ? Vancouver ?
    21 Humphry's
     San Diego, CA
    22 Las Vagas, NV
    23 Occidental College
      Los Angeles, CA
    28 Bela at Blair
     Nashville, TN
    29 Bela at Blair
     Nashville, TN
    
    OCTOBER
    21 FishCreek, WI
    22 Houghton, MI
    27 Miller Chapel
     Annville, PA
    28 Troy Savings Bank 
     Troy, NY
    29 Flynn Theater
     Burlington, VT
    
    

    From the net:
    
    Bela Fleck & the Flecktones  
    Current 8/10/94 
    
    ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE   CALL FIRST
    
    ****ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE***** Please CALL before you DRIVE***
    
    
    8/28/1994 Towne Point Jazz Norfolk, Va
    8/30/1994 Bela, RB, Zach Fly Nash-R&VW Fly NNews
    8/31/1994 Beaver Creek Pavillion Tent Avon, Co
    9/1/1994 Botanic Gardens Denver, Co
    9/2/1994 Botanic Gardens Denver, Co
    9/3/1994 Strawberry Yosemite, Ca
    9/4/1994 Mountain Winery Saratoga, Ca
    9/5/1994 Rain Date Co
    9/7/1994 ?Catalyst, Santa Cruz, Ca?
    9/8/1994 Crest Theater Sacramento, Ca
    9/9/1994 ?The Filmore San Fran, Ca?
    9/10/1994 Johnson's Beach Russian River Fest Guernville, Ca
    9/11/1994 Humpstys Lake Tahoe, NV?Ca
    9/13/1994 Mill Camp Springfield, Or
    9/14/1994 Roseland Theater Portland, Or
    9/15/1994 Cultural Center Vancouver, BC
    9/16/1994 Whitman College Walla Walla, Wa
    9/17/1994 FieldhouseUnv of Puget Sound Tacoma, Wa
    9/18/1994 Historic Ashland Armory Ashland, Or
    9/21/1994 Humphry's San Diego, Ca
    9/22/1994 Huterage Theater Las Vegas, NV
    9/23/1994 Occidental Col., Glendale, Ca
    
    9/29/1994 River Front Nashville, Tn
    9/30/1994 Bela at Blair Nashville, Tn
     
    10/21/1994 Literary Club Grand Rapids, Mi
    10/22/1994 Mich Tech U Houghton, Mich
    10/24/1994 The Vogue Indianapolis, In
    10/26/1994 ?? Rochester, NY?
    10/27/1994 Miller Chapel Annville, Pa
    10/28/1994 Troy Savings Bank  Troy, NY
    10/29/1994 Flynn Theater Burlington, Vt
    10/30/1994 ?Boston?
    10/31/1994 ?Iorn Horse NHampton, Mass
    11/1/1994 ?Iorn Horse NHampton, Mass
    11/3/1994 ?? Providence, RI
    11/4/1994 Club Bene NJ
    11/5/1994 IMAC Huntington, NY
    11/10/1994 Bowdoin Col Brunswick, Me
    11/11/1994 Music Hall Portsmouth, NH
    11/12/1994 Lehigh U Bethlehem, Pa
    If you want Merchandise information....please write:
    
    Flecktones World Headquarters
    PO Box 91076
    Nashville, Tn. 37209
    
                 

    Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
    Current 10/6/94
    
    *****Please call before driving, all dates subject to change*****
    
    10/21/1994 Literary Club -Grand Rapids, Mi
    10/22/1994 Mich Tech U -Houghton, Mich
    10/23/1994 Civic High School Aud -Kaukauna, Wi 
    10/24/1994 The Vogue -Indianapolis, In
    10/25/1994 Bluebird -Bloomington, Ind
    10/27/1994 Miller Chapel -Annville, Pa
    10/28/1994 Troy Savings Bank  -Troy, NY
    10/29/1994 Flynn Theater -Burlington, Vt
    10/30/1994 Workshops -Burlington, Vt
    10/31/1994 Iron Horse -NHampton, Mass
    11/1/1994 Iron Horse -NHampton, Mass
    11/2/1994 State Theater -Ithaca, NY
    11/3/1994 The Strand -Providence, RI   w/ Rippingtons
    11/4/1994 Club Bene -Morgan, NJ
    11/5/1994 IMAC -Huntington, NY
    11/7/1994 Towne Crier- Pawling, NY
    11/8/1994 OFF
    11/9/1994 Maine Center for Arts -Orono, Me    W/ Michael Hedges
    11/10/1994 Pickard Theater  Bowdoin Col -Brunswick, Me    W/ Michael
    Hedges
    11/11/1994 Music Hall -Portsmouth, NH
    11/12/1994 Broughal Middle School Aud Lehigh U -Bethlehem, Pa
    
    12/9/1994 East Liberty Cathedral  -Pittsburg, Pa w/ Trio Globo, Paul
    Winter
    
    If you are interested in Flecktone Merchandise please write:
    
    Flecktones World Headquarters
    PO Box 91076
    Nashville, Tn. 37209
    

    Well I'll be, here's the flecknote.

    Tonight's the night debess, haven't seen 'em yet.

    I'm in Section C row G seat 7 if anyone wants to stop by
    and say hi.  Ken?

    Tom

>     I'm in Section C row G seat 7 if anyone wants to stop by
>     and say hi.  Ken?


    Noted.  Hope to see you there.  I'll be @ Redbones before the show,
    also to pick up my tix, not sure where they are, but it's in a group
    where about 5 people are taping so we shouldn't be hard to find.  Look
    for the wires and the towers of mics ;-)

    /Ken

    Hi Ken!   [Turns out, Ken and I used to work together!  who knew]

    Bela rules.  He's an awesome banjo player with an extreme variety
    of styles, a great sense of humor, a great love of music, and 
    very evidently enjoys the hell out of himself up there on stage.
    The band encompasses a wide variety of styles.  Safe to say, the
    audience was completely won over by the end of the night (two
    sets, no opening act, about 2 hours of music I think) and gave 
    several standing ovations.  The producer was from Western Mass
    (songstreet?) and said no one in Boston would book the show
    (it sold out, and I guarantee it'll be so again).  They ended
    with Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, that was the encore.  First
    Boston appearance in 2 years!

    Futureman is way cool, he plays all the drums etc on his 
    synthaxedrumitar.  As Bela said, "we auditioned a lot of
    synthaxedrumitarists for this position and he won".  :-)
    Futureman comes from the year 2050 and looks it!

    But the crowning achievement of the night was the most
    incredible display of bass guitar playing virtuosity I've
    ever seen, and I've seen Stanley Clarke and Jaco Pastorius
    and I don't know who all.  Victor Lamar? Wooten is his
    name, and man he cooks.  You never saw anything like it.
    He did a solo that almost literally had my brain flying
    out of the top of my head.  I couldn't believe it.

    Don't miss these guys, that's my advice, fwiw.

    Tom
    

    there is one bass player 
    and one bass player alone
    
    
    we know who *he* is.....
    
    
    

    
     Sorry to have missed BF after that review Tom. Do you know if
     they are playing anywhere else locally soon or if the have a hotline
     number...?
                                                 
     thanks,
     Cath 

	yeah, I -really- spaced it this time - I was planning on going
	to see Bela in Keene this Saturday, only to find out that he
	was there last weekend :-(

	Debess

Good meeting you again Tom ;-)    Good show last night.  Victor really
cooked on that bass!  Never ceases to amaze.  And the horn player fit in
pretty well I thought.   He had the wierdest looking sax I've ever seen,
must've been a bariton sax - probably 4 or 5 feet long!

/Ken

I think Bela is playing at the recently reopened Iron Horse in
Northampton tonight.

I think there's a hotline # to call but don't have it.

There's also this pointer:

Bela Fleck      http://www.vuw.ac.nz./~gnat/banjo/bela-fleck.html

/Ken

>And the horn player fit in
>pretty well I thought.   He had the wierdest looking sax I've ever seen,

Paul McCandless(sp?) of Argon.
Yeah, I didn't know the names of half the instruments he played!
[which doesn't prove much ;-) ].  Futureman played the box he
was sitting on, that was pretty much fun.

These guys remind me a little of Shadowfax.

They definitely are playing the Horse (Iron, that is!) tonight.
Great place to see a show, btw, very intimate.

Tom

>    there is one bass player 

    Yeah, other than him, I meant!  

    ;-)

    Tom

    the 1 bass player....Geddy Lee is pretty good, good choice CL, but
    Chris Squire is not too shabby...but lefty Paul McCartney izn't too bad
    either...check out Sgt. Peppers cd and listen to those bass lines...
    Definitive  (in my humble Beatle-minded opinion of course :))))

    well
    geddy lee wasn't the one alone i was trying to get across and in my
    most misunderstood sarcasm...let me PHIL you in on who was the Phinal
    choice....
    :^)

    well, I understood yer sarcasm...the fact that you didn't understand MY
    sarcasm is aPAULing
    

    
    
    There's a good page at:
    
    http://www.bbt.com/~beauvais/flecktones/fleckton.html
    
    with links to other sites, inclduings the flecktones' e-mail address.

According to the bela web site I mentioned, the flecktones are playing
the Iron Horse tonite, then NY and NJ for the most part of November and
December.   Sam Bush and Paul McCandless are listed for most of shows.

/Ken

    Sam and Paul were with them when i saw them at CLub Casino this
    summer...  absolutely incredible...  Sam is a monster mandolin
    player...
    
    					da ve

    serpent deflector, didn't ja go?

Having seen last night's show and the one at Hampton Beach, I thought that
Sam Bush adds a lot to the music.  

 Josh

    Nope, never made it out th' door.
    
    Apathy ruled.
    
    (That and I bought m'self a new keyboard. Had to stay at home
    tinkering.)

    re Josh's note...
    
    for me, a comment like that is a mark of a grate musician...  while 
    we were there at Club Casino, the music was awesome and everything,
    but he didn't really "stand out" or attract much attention to what
    he was playing most of the time...  but then when you go see it again,
    and something is missing, well, it's very telling...
    
    				da ve

    @ Lebanon, NH Opera House
    Thursday June 6, 1996

    The Iron Horse, Northhampton, MA  
    Monday June 3 

    1-800-THE-TICK for tickets.

Bela Fleck with the Boston Pops... (no joke, I've got tickets! :)
Tonite, May 14, Symphony Hall.

I believe this performance is being taped for a future
"Evening at Pops"....

wow, I just heard a couple of weeks ago (in here I think) Bela was going to 
be playing. I'll have to keep my eye on the Channel 2 listings fro the 
broadcast date. Enjoy

Cool show.  Turned out it was split into three parts:

	* one segment of just the Pops
	* one segment of the Pops w/ Bela (& the Flecktones)
	* one segment of the Pops w/ Nanci Griffith (including one song w/Bela)

Bela absolutely stole the show.  It was fun watching some of the old fogies
trying to keep up with Bela's lightning riffs.  It *was* taped for future
broadcast, sometime in July I believe.  Check your local listings.

Nanci Griffith was good too, but was terribly under-miked (and then
over-amplified to compensate -- can you say distortion?).  Maybe the 
tv broadcast will be better.

    Somerville Theatre, Oct 29