About this Event
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
https://www.alysstephens.org/events/victor-wooten/Victor Wooten, is a five-time Grammy winner and a founding member of the super-group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Continuing to blaze a musical trail with the band, Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy-nominated solo recordings and tours.
Wooten is a skilled naturalist and teacher, a published author, and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist including being voted Bassist of the Year in Bass Player Magazine’s readers poll three times (the only person to win it more than once.) In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassist of All Time. Victor has been heralded as “the Michael Jordan of the bass” and “one of the most fearless musicians on the planet.”
Wooten’s sought-after skills and growing popularity have led to recordings and performances with artists such as The Dave Matthews Band, Prince, Branford Marsalis, India Arie, Keb Mo, Susan Tedeschi, Gov’t Mule, Bruce Hornsby, and many others.