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In addition, Fleck shared the "The last thing I just got to do was Grammy for Best Country a musical goal for a long time — Instrumental Performance with Alison recording a classical album: Perpetual Brown. "We try to make our show fresh every single night," Fleck says. "It's like musical calis- thenics and means constantly playing new music, talking about music and being in dif- ferent situations with other groups. "The title Outbound perfect- ly reflects the current state of the Flecktones. There's a sense of us going on a journey, a voyage, instead of a sense of completion. This album repre- sents us — starting on a new label (Sony) and becominc 4 , more expansive musically. Fleck, a New York City "We have a lot of fun Motion, with music by native who is Jewish on his playing with Keb' Mo' Bach, Beethoven and mother's side, began playing (pictured)," says Fleck. Chopin. It's coming the banjo at age 15 after being "Sometimes, he'll come out in September. I'd awed by bluegrass musicians. out and sing a song like to continue trying He experimented with playing with us, and sometimes things that haven't bebop on the banjo in high I'll get on stage and been done before with school, and later joined the play a tune with him." the banjo while inter- band New Grass Revival. After acting with the great some solo work, he formed the community of musicians." Flecktones in 1989. Interacting with musicians also The Flecktones made a self-titled offers another way of composing. debut recording in 1990 by playing a "I really like to compose with the "blu-bop" mix of bluegrass and jazz. band on stage at sound check," Fleck The group has made a string of CDs, explains. "We'll be checking the equip- with each aspiring toward an innova- ment to make sure it's working, but tive musical impression. we also might be writing a song. That quest for innovation has made "For lover's Leap,' a Latin waltz Fleck the only musician to be nomi- with a cabaret feel in Outbound, I nated for a Grammy in jazz, bluegrass, picked up my banjo at sound check pop, country, spoken word, Christian and just started to play that melody composition and world music cate- complete, although I had never played gories. it before or even thought of it. The "Every time we write a new album band started playing right away, and or a new song, it reflects the changes — boom — there it was." in our attitudes toward music," says Fleck, now living in Nashville with his Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, wife, Cynthia, who has worked as a with special guest Keb' Mo', per- record label executive. "We are always form 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at looking for new ways to sound like a the Royal Oak Theatre, 318 W. band together and new ways to sound Fourth St., in Royal Oak. 535. different." (248) 544-7938. 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