Banjo, harp and drums are not exactly your typical jazz trio. But Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez make that combination come alive in a project they call the BEATrio. Sánchez jokes ...

Jazz artist Edmar Castañeda never had any doubt he could groove and do pretty much anything on the harp. “It’s really an honor for me to create this way of playing the harp,” said Castañeda, calling ...

A sold-out room warmly greeted harpist Edmar Castañeda's trio as they took the stage opening their set with the up-tempo "Entre Cuerdas," the title track off the leader's new album. The tune began ...

Since his move to the United States in 1994, Colombia-born Edmar Castaneda has quite literally taken New York and the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp, ...

BEATtrio (“Beat trio”), the all-star band featuring Fleck, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez, will release its self-titled debut album on May 16 (Béla Fleck Productions / Thirty ...

Antonio Sanchez plays drums with Béla Fleck and Edmar Castañeda in Courtyard D on Saturday evening at FreshGrass. All three musicians, even while allowing each other to improvise and wander off into ...

Banjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create.... Three is not a crowd: Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and ...