Béla Fleck will release his all-star January 8, 2022, show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on October 16 as a 2CD, 3LP set, Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman. The concert, which took place during a major East Coast blizzard, celebrated the release of My Bluegrass Heart, which would go on to win the 2022 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, and featured appearances by Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton, Tony Trischka and Molly Tuttle.

“We somehow managed to take and own the stage that night,” Fleck said in a statement. “My amazing peers, friends and iconic performers really brought the fire—I’m very proud to bring you this fantastic live performance.” 

Unfortunately, the icy weather stymied Chris Thile’s travel to Tennessee, leaving the original album ensemble one man short onstage. In the record’s liner notes, Thile writes, “It killed me not to be there in the most hallowed hall in bluegrass that wintry night back in 2022, but this recording gives us all a front row seat to this balletic intergenerational relay race.” 

Around the new live set’s release, Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart band will tour throughout 2026, including special performances with Renée Fleming behind their 2026 collaborative album, The Fiddle and the Drum. Fleming will be backed by Fleck and the My Bluegrass Heart Band on September 15 at Schermerhorn Symphony in Nashville—as part of AmericanaFest—September 22 at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and December 3 at Carnegie Hall in New York City, with guest vocalist Aoife O’Donovan joining the band in Los Angeles and New York.

“Béla took such a collaborative spirit with this,” Hull said in a statement. “He has an ability to bring out the best in people, to allow them to bring what they’re good at and let them shine.” 

Fleck will perform next at Mount Gretna, PA’s Mt. Gretna Playhouse with the My Bluegrass Heart band.

Here’s a look at the Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman track Listing 

Side A

Blue Mountain Hop

Vertigo featuring Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Bryan Sutton

This Old Road 

Side B

Slippery Eel featuring Michael Cleveland and Billy Strings

Hug Point featuring Molly Tuttle

Round Rock featuring Michael Cleveland and Jerry Douglas

Old North Woods

Side C

Us Chickens

Tentacle Dragon (Revenge of the) featuring Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton

Psalm 136 featuring Sierra Hull

Side D

Strider featuring Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle

Our Little Secret

Charm School featuring Sam Bush and Billy Strings

Side E

Wheels Up featuring Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle

Hunter’s Moon

Baptist Pumpkin Farm  

Side F

Boulderdash featuring Tony Trischka

When the Storm Is Over featuring Sam Bush

Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day featuring Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle

Tennessee featuring Billy Strings

My Bluegrass Heart Tour Dates

Sept 2 Mount Gretna, PA  Mt. Gretna Playhouse 

Sept 3 Richmond, VA  Maymont Park 

Sept 4 Mill Spring, NC  Earl Scruggs Music Festival 

Sept 15 Nashville, TN Schermerhorn Symphony Center feat. Renée Fleming & Sierra Hull 

Sept 17 Atlanta, GA  Rialto Center for the Arts

Sept 18 Athens, GA  UGA Performing Arts Center 

Sept 19 Blacksburg, VA  Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre

Sept 20 Annapolis, MD Annapolis Baygrass Festival 

Sept 22 Los Angeles, CA Walt Disney Concert Hall, featuring Renée Fleming

Sept 26 & 27 Santa Fe, NM  Lensing Performing Arts Center  (Rhapsody in Blue) 

Oct 8 Clarksville, TN Austin Peay State University 

Oct 9 Livingston, KY The Moonshiner’s Ball

Oct 10 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert Hall 

Oct 11 Eureka Springs, AR  Hillberry Music Festival 

Oct 13 Columbus, GA River Center PAC 

Oct 14 Gainesville, FL University of Florida PAC 

Oct 15 Birmingham, AL Alys Robinson Stephens PAC

Nov 3 Stoughton, WI Stoughton Opera House 

Nov 4 Evanston, IL Cahn Auditorium 

Nov 5 Grand Rapids, MI  St. Cecilia Music Hall 

Nov 6 Brookfield, WI  Wilson Center 

Nov 10 Kent, OH  The Kent Stage

Nov 11 Indianapolis, IN  Clowes Memorial Hall 

Nov 12 Royal Oak, MI  Royal Oak Music Theatre

Nov 13 Toronto, ON  Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music 

Nov 14 Philadelphia, PA Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Nov 15 Old Saybrook, CT  The Kate 

Dec 1 Charlottesville, VA  The Paramount Theater

Dec 2 Northampton, MA  Academy of Music Theatre

Dec 3 New York, NY  Carnegie Hall, featuring Renée Fleming

Dec 4 Concord, NH  Capitol Theatre 

Dec 5 Stowe, VT  Spruce Peak PAC 

Dec 6 Ithaca, NY  State Theater of Ithaca

Dec 7 Munhall, PA  Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall 

Dec 10 Puerto Morelos, QR  Strings & Sol