Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
+ Guests (see below)
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Main Auditorium Glasgow, Scotland
19 January 2012


NOTE This is the setlist from Cowtown the disc's have not been split this way

1 Bottle Rocket
2 Life in Eleven
3 Victor Solo
4 Prickly Pear
5 Futureman Solo
6 Sweet Pomegranates
7 B�la Solo
8 Sunset Road
9 Howard Solo
10 Yee-haw Factor


Set Break
11 [unknown song]
Bright Morning Stars
12 Star of the County Down
13 Irish Medley
14 [unknown song]
Kathleen Machines song
15 [unknown song]
Karan Casey song
16 Kangding Qingge/Old-Timey Dance Party
Abigail Washburn
17 [unknown song]
The Fiddle/Drum, Warfare, Kathleen tune
18 Celtic Medley
Celtic Medley to G pipes, Sally Ann at end

Encore Break
19 Falani

MS-TFB-2 In-Ear Binaural Mics (new ones) -> SP-SPSB-11 Slimline Battery Module (16 Hz, no bass roll-off) -> line-in jack of Sony PCM-M10 -> Sound Forge 9 (only to trim pre- and post-gig chatter)

Rec Level 5 for 1st set, 4.5 for 2nd set. Recorded in 24 bit.

Format:
2 sets with an interval, no opener.

Location:
Front row, about 1/4 of the way from the right hand aisle.

Description:
Two decades on from the original Flecktones� first parting of ways, when founding pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy bowed out after six meteoric years, Celtic Connections is proud to host the reconvened quartet�s European debut, following last May�s release of their dazzling new album Rocket Science. While it entered at No.1 simultaneously on the Billboard, iTunes and SoundScan Jazz charts, the gloriously kaleidoscopic sound of Levy�s reunion with the band�s prime mover, banjo wizard B�la Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten and percussionist/Drumitarist Roy �Futureman� Wooten renders genre as consummately and enthrallingly irrelevant as they ever did, further enriched by a freshly collaborative approach to composition and arrangements. In addition to the Rocket Science material, they�ll be connecting with some special Celtic guests, including Irish songstress Karan Casey, the fabulous Gaelic singer Kathleen MacInnes � on whose forthcoming second album Fleck features � and Transatlantic Sessions regular Michael McGoldrick, just off tour with Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan. They will also be joined from further afield by the boundary-busting US singer and banjo doyenne Abigail Washburn and American bluegrass fiddler and singer Casey Driessen.

Performers:
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Abigail Washburn
Karan Casey
Kathleen MacInnes
Michael McGoldrick
John Doyle
Casey Driessen
Martin O'Neill

Comments & Notes:
(1) With the exception of Casey Driessen, all guests were in the 2nd set only.
(2) The guy sitting on my left (who I actually know quite well) was coughing on and off during the gig.