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Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck: Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Music · Jul 30, 2026 · published to YouTube

Tom Huizenga | July 30, 2026 My favorite artists are the restless ones — those who enjoy, even thrive on, working outside their comfort zones, refusing to be confined to any convenient pigeonhole. Banjo magus Béla Fleck might be the poster boy for such musical curiosity. The 18-time Grammy-winner is fluent in bluegrass, newgrass (which he helped define), jazz, rock, Indian classical and various other traditions from around the globe. Opera superstar Renée Fleming also enjoys a boundary-defying inquisitive streak. While she's one of the finest, most celebrated, sopranos of her generation, Fleming has stepped into surprising places, including a Super Bowl performance, recording a moody rock album sporting songs by Peter Gabriel and Tears for Fears, singing Broadway and jazz, and now, with Fleck, performing old Appalachian folk songs behind an office desk. What will she do next? The seem

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