It was an apparently unprecedented feat at any bluegrass festival at the time. While studying at Aspen that summer, Meyer had concurrently won first-place honors at the nearby Pitkin County Fair by deftly playing breakneck fiddle songs on his upright bass. Meyer, then barely out of his teens, was a student at that summer’s Aspen Music Festival, whose other notable alums include such classical music stars as violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. He performs here Wednesday at the Balboa Theatre with Meyer and Indian tabla drum legend Zakir Hussain, whose own musical collaborators have ranged from George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to John McLaughlin and the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart.įleck and his pioneering bluegrass, funk and fusion-jazz band, The Flecktones, were in Aspen in 1982 to headline a bluegrass festival. “I don’t think there was a Ben & Jerry’s in Aspen back then!” Fleck said. If rival ice cream company Häagen-Dazs wants to get in the game with a music-inspired flavor of its own, genre-leaping banjo innovator Béla Fleck and contrabass master Edgar Meyer are ideal candidates.įleck, a 14-time Grammy Award winner, and Meyer, a five-time winner, first started making music together in the summer of 1982 in Colorado, in front of the Häagen-Dazs store in Aspen. Over the years, Ben & Jerry’s has created ice cream flavors inspired by famous musicians and bands, including Cherry Garcia, Bohemian Raspberry and Phish Food.
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