Bela Fleck’s Doc How To Write A Banjo Concerto Premieres In Nashville

Watch the trailer here 

April 19^th at the Nashville Film Festival marks the world premiere of Béla Fleck’s full-length documentary, How to Write a Banjo Concerto (Argot Pictures).  Directed by Sascha Paladino and Béla Fleck, the film is a revealing look at the renowned banjo player’s creative process and relationships, including lifelong friend and colleague Edgar Meyer, his hero Earl Scruggs (making one of his last on-camera appearances and to whom the concerto is dedicated), wife Abigail Washburn, mentor Tony Trischka, Chris Thile, Chick Corea, his namesake Béla Bartok, the individual players in the orchestra and more.

“The fact that I had no qualifications whatsoever as a classical composer didn’t seem to bother the symphony, and honestly it bothered me only a little,” adds Fleck.  “I’ve always enjoyed dreaming up challenging scenarios, and then digging deep and working obsessively to attempt to pull them off.”

Béla and the 90-piece Nashville Symphony Orchestra world premiered The Impostor concerto to a sold out audience in September, 2011.