{"id":2460405,"date":"2026-06-15T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2460405"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:37:26","slug":"banjo-player-bela-fleck-and-soprano-renee-fleming-discuss-their-new-album-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/banjo-player-bela-fleck-and-soprano-renee-fleming-discuss-their-new-album-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Banjo player B\u00e9la Fleck and soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming discuss their new album : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming and banjo player B\u00e9la Fleck have recorded an album together that celebrates Appalachian folk music, The Fiddle and the Drum<\/em>.
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As a teenager growing up with vocal music teacher parents in Rochester, N.Y., Ren\u00e9e Fleming wrote songs for piano and guitar inspired by American singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce and Dan Fogelberg.<\/p>\n

Fleming, who is now a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer best known for gracing the stages of some of the world’s most prominent opera houses, is returning to those roots in a new album with banjo player B\u00e9la Fleck.<\/p>\n

Fleck has 18 Grammys and a Latin Grammy to his name. He produced The Fiddle and the Drum<\/em>, a celebration of Appalachian bluegrass where other great interpreters of traditional American music also make an appearance. <\/p>\n