Beethoven to Bluegrass and Special Guest Victor Wooten

About this episode

Victor Wooten joins to celebrate Nashville's music scene with performances from various talented young musicians.

Grammy Award-winning bass player Victor Wooten joins us this week as we celebrate great music out of Nashville! We hear an electric performance on violin, imitating sounds from Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, by a teen musician who already holds a real job in an orchestra. We meet a talented pianist who performs Beethoven. And a teen bluegrass mandolin player with a career on the rise performs solo and collaborates on a toe-tapping tune with Victor Wooten and Peter Dugan. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy

People in this episode

Host: Peter Dugan

Guest: Victor Wooten

Topics covered

• Beethoven
• Bluegrass
• Nashville
• music performance

Keywords

• Grammy Award-winning
• bass player
• teen musician
• orchestra
• pianist
• mandolin player

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Beethoven to Bluegrass, Grammy Award, Beethoven

Places: Nashville

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