Tomeka Reid embraces the cello’s full range—earthy to ethereal—on dance! skip! hop!. In our studio, she talks dance, AACM mentors, early inspirations, and her work as an educator and advocate.

In the hands of Béla Fleck, a banjo is a skeleton key, capable of unlocking almost any musical door. For this episode, he joins us in the banjo parlor at Vintage Instruments to talk musical legacies, personal histories, and how his perspective has changed (and how it hasn’t) over the course of a nearly five-decade career.