For three hours Saturday night I sat mesmerized at the Barclay Theater as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer melted my brain by doing things with a banjo, bass, and piano that should have been impossible. We dragged both sets of parents out with us, and they had a great time too.

After a year-long break the Flecktones will start touring again in 2006, and January will see a new album from the band.

Happy!