“When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” says renowned tabla player, Zakir Hussain, of his bandmates, banjo legend Béla Fleck, the great double bassist Edgar Meyer, and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia. “So the music...
Edgar Meyer kicks off the new year on tour with Sam Bush, Mike Marshall, George Meyer and Bryan Sutton. The American music trailblazers will perform works from the celebrated album Short Trip Home in tandem with new music written for the tour. The first leg of the tour...
This spring, Edgar Meyer sets out on a U.S. tour with the Glasgow-based Scottish Ensemble, playing several of his own compositions alongside works by Holst, Bach, MacMillan, Caroline Shaw, Vaughan Williams. The tour begins with a performance in Fairfax, Virginia (March 27), before traveling to Hanover,...
This summer, Edgar Meyer joins Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Chris Thile for a tour of the ensemble’s 2020 collaborative album Not Our First Goat Rodeo. Released on Sony last June, the album came as a follow up to the 2011 record The Goat Rodeo Sessions,...