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Chick Corea and Béla Fleck

Saturday, MARCH 1 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$50 • Dartmouth students $5

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Musical worlds collide when two of the most prominent and pioneering musicians of our time come together for a mind-blowing concert. Master jazz pianist Chick Corea, who's influenced modern music for 40 years, and premiere banjoist Béla Fleck, who's taken bluegrass into wildly new realms, celebrate the music of their recent CD Enchantment. With a combined total of 20 Grammys, this eminent duo gets crankin' when bluegrass and jazz intertwine in rippling cascades. Fleck first heard his hero Chick Corea's band Return to Forever in the '70s and recast some of that genius into his own bands New Grass Revival and The Flecktones. Corea's brilliant experimentation over the years, from his early days with Miles Davis to his hard-hitting Elektric Band, his work with synthesizers, jazz fusion and forays into classical music, now includes this astonishing union of divergent musical traditions. The result? An exuberant testament not only to daring new styles, but to the boundless creativity of these two musical giants.