BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR Feat. ALASH will play Oakland's Fox Theater on December 16th!

Presale tickets for BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR will be available on Thursday, September 23rd at 10am through Saturday, September 25th at 11:59 pm through Fox Theater's official website, http://www.thefoxoakland.com/. All seats are RESERVED for this show.
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BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR Feat. ALASH will play Oakland's Fox Theater on December 16th!

Presale tickets for BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR will be available on Thursday, September 23rd at 10am through Saturday, September 25th at 11:59 pm through Fox Theater's official website, http://www.thefoxoakland.com/. All seats are RESERVED for this show.

Tickets for BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR go on-sale to the public on Sunday, September 26th at 10am. Visit http://www.thefoxoakland.com/ to purchase tickets.

To listen to BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES, visit:
http://www.myspace.com/belaflecktones

ABOUT BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES - HOLIDAY TOUR:
Flecktones fans can expect an early Christmas this year, as the Bela Fleck-anchored quartet will release its debut holiday album, "Jingle All the Way" Sept. 30 via Rounder.

The 16-song set has an eclectic array of tunes, from Bach to Vince Guaraldi, traditional songs and the Joni Mitchell classic "River." Guests include Andy Statman, Edger Meyer and the Alash Ensemble, who specialize in Tuvan throat singing.

"We've always wanted to do an album like this," Fleck tells Billboard.com. "This year we started to do less touring, and we didn't want to tour without some new music. It was a slow, steady project. A lot of the arrangements were worked out on tour."

Fleck says the group felt a sense of freedom with these songs because of how familiar it was with most of them, allowing for a more experimental approach. "With your own, you need to state the melody right away," Fleck explains. Of the most ambitious, "Twelve Days of Christmas" builds up to 12 different keys and 12 different time signatures over the course of the tune. "Medley" sought to meld as many Christmas tunes as possible into one song, and Fleck confesses that there's a moment where "five of six are being played together, simultaneously."

"Jingle All The Way" is the Flecktones' first release on Rounder after the group's recent release from its Columbia deal. Prior to the formation of the Flecktones, Fleck started his career with Rounder in 1979.

A U.S. tour that will highlight most of the "Jingle All The Way" material will hit Oakland's Fox Theater on December 16th.