Tune for Sunday: an improbable mix of the best players of an insane combination of instruments

[DFW]

Steel drums, Banjo, English horn, soprano sax, bassoon, fretless bass and drum synthotar

Béla Fleck and "Big Country"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c17c

With a slightly better audio but no video:

[MuseRider]

1. LOVE THEM!

I have not seen them in awhile but if you hung around after the shows they would come out and talk to you. We had the best time, I loved talking to Jeff who was playing winds for them then and spent a long while with Future Man, a fun and incredibly interesting man. Victor was my son's idol at the time, he was very kind. Bela seemed shy. I have never met such innovative and kind musicians.

[DFW]

3. They all seem like interesting people

I saw Béla and his wife on Cape Cod about 6 or 7 weeks ago. He was amazing, of course, but I miss the Flecktones something fierce!

I am REALLY envious you got to talk to them. Victor's bass playing is STILL my idea of perfection. I used to play bass in another life, but never with anyone the caliber of those guys. He was in an early incarnation of the Flecktones (only 4 in the band) that opened for Bonnie Raitt here in Düsseldorf in 1988. Scary that I'm talking 31 years ago!

[eppur_se_muova]

2. LOL, should have guessed it was Bela ! nt

[DFW]

4. Who else, right?

In hindsight, it really couldn't have been anyone else. That concert also had an Indian tabla player and a Tuvan singer. There is a CD of this concert "Live at the Quick." I would have given much to have been there!