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An Evening Of The Blues

A fine guitarist, musician and songwriter, Taj Mahal is known for his love of the blues. In 1997 and again in 2000 he won two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2006 he appeared as a guest musician on the Ladysmith Black Mambazo album, Long Walk to Freedom. He has also recorded numerous pieces of music for several movie soundtracks, including Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and the Blues Brothers 2000.

R. Carlos Nakai | Sunday, Oct 26, 2008

Premier Native American Flute Music

R. Carlos Nakai is the world's premier performer of the Native American flute. Originally trained in classical trumpet and music theory, Nakai was given a traditional cedar wood flute as a gift and challenged to see what he could do with it. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and two of his records, Canyon Trilogy and Earth Spirit (which are the two of the first Native American flute albums to go gold), have been RIAA certified Gold.

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones | Sunday, Nov 16, 2008

A Little Bit of Everything

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop." The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials. The Flecktones have toured extensively since then, often playing over 200 concerts per year. Frontman Béla Fleck plays acoustic and electric banjos, mixing a bluegrass and folk sound into a modern improvisational style. Fleck has received Grammy nominations for performances in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, spoken word, contemporary Christian, gospel, classical, and country categories. To date, he is the only artist to receive nominations in as many diverse categories.