Woodstock Film Festival presents Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer

The Woodstock Film Festival is pleased to announce that seven-time Grammy award-winner Bela Fleck will kick-off the 5th Annual Woodstock Film Festival with an evening of acoustic music with renowned bassist Edgar Meyer at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale -On-Hudson, Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 7:30 p.m.

Bela Fleck is considered to be the world’s foremost virtuoso banjo player and is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in jazz, bluegrass, classical, pop, country, spoken word, composition and world music categories.

The evening’s program will include original works by Fleck and Meyer, as well as classical selections, including pieces from the duo’s recently released critically acclaimed album Music for Two and Fleck’s multiple Grammy Award-winning recording, Perpetual Motion. The evening will not only offer the three B’s: Bach, Banjo and Bass, but also selections of jazz, baroque, and bluegrass.

Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer have been friends and colleagues for more than 20 years. A documentary about the Fleck/Meyer partnership, Obstinato: Making Music for Two, will be featured during The Woodstock Film Festival. The movie was shot on the road during the first leg of their tour by filmmaker Sascha Paladino, who is Fleck’s brother.

The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center was chosen as the site of the opening WFF concert because its innovative design provides audiences with a world-class environment that inspires risk-taking performances and provocative programs, a hallmark of the Fleck/Meyer/WFF collaboration.

The ‘fiercely independent’ Woodstock Film Festival celebrates its 5th Anniversary in 2004, from Wednesday, October 13 through Sunday, October 17. More than 120 films, panels, seminars, concerts and special events will be featured at venues in Woodstock, Rhinebeck and Hunter. Visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for more detailed program information.