NJPAC Welcomes Bela Fleck, Christian McBride & Brooklyn Rider Tonight

Premier banjo player Béla Fleck & Brooklyn Rider join bassist Christian McBride for All Strings Attached, an eclectic array of musical stylings, from bluegrass and classical crossover to jazz and world beat presented by New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) tonight, November 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM in the Victoria Theater. Get your tickets now at NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

The intimate Victoria Theater is the setting for this global excursion, which melds the unique music of a multiple Grammy winner, a string quartet and NJPAC's acclaimed jazz advisor.

Béla Fleck has been nominated in more different musical categories than anyone in the history of the Grammy Awards, with 15 wins and 30 nods. He has been honored for his performance and composing collaborations with bassist Edgar Meyer, The Flecktones and Chick Corea. The Imposter, his banjo concerto, was commissioned by the Nashville Symphony in 2011.

Brooklyn Rider (Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violins, Nicholas Cords, viola and Eric Jacobsen, cello) are classical musicians "performing with the energy of young rock stars," according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This game-changing quartet is equally at home in clubs and concert halls and has played Lincoln Center, the South by Southwest festival and the Library of Congress.

Bassist, composer and educator Christian McBride has performed with Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Pat Metheny and Milt Jackson, among many others. In the worlds of R&B, pop-rock, classical music and hip-hop, he also arranged or worked with James Brown, Sting, Carly Simon, Queen Latifah, Kathleen Battle and the Shanghai Quartet. McBride is the composer of The Movement, Revisited suite dedicated to civil rights leaders. His newest release, and first big band recording as a leader, is The Good Feeling.