“The Greatest Living Country Singer” Saved By Family and Faith   
 
The Classic Center Theatre in Athens, GA. will host Jones in concert on Friday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. 
 
When Starday Records producer Pappey Dailey told him to quit singing like his idols and try singing like himself, the ex-marine and then 24 year-old country music hopeful, George Jones, mastered his first Top Five hit “Why Baby Why” and set the course for a career that would span more than 50 years and produce 150 chart-topping recordings.
One of seven children, Jones …

Mainstream is no stream for the world’s premier banjo artist and his musical brothers, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, when it comes to composing and collaboration on their multiple Grammy® award-winning songs and albums that span a musical career of more than two decades.
With an inadvertent assemblage of talent in 1988 for the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials, the band’s industry recognition and spiraling success have been left to anything but chance. Touring extensively, performing more than 200 concerts per year, the Flecktones, whom Fleck considers “a group of equals,” push each other to perfection, playing the music that Fleck has written for the banjo and finding a home for it.