When Opera Met Bluegrass: How the Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck Album Actually Came Together

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A collaboration between opera soprano Renée Fleming and genre-jumping banjo auteur Béla Fleck may seem, on the surface, like something that came out of nowhere. But truth is their Appalachian-flavored album The Fiddle and the Drum, which comes out Friday (May 29) has been a long time coming. The pair — which has 23 combined […]

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