_photo by Jim McGuire_

New York’s Symphony Space has announced the details for its Project Americana, a collection of performances, screenings and more that promise to “explore our country’s shared history and culture.” Included in the events is the first ever curatorial residency from banjo master Béla Fleck, who will bring several of his musical collaborators for a run of performances on October 14–23.

Fleck himself will kick off the residency with his Flecktones bassist Victor Wooten on October 14 before mandolinist Sierra Hull takes over the following evening. Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei will bring their banjo/guzheng duo on October 17, and the run rounds out with an October 23 Banjo Roundtable performance featuring Fleck, Washburn, Tony Trischka, Seamus Egan and Don Vappie.

Other events occuring during the Project Americana series, which runs October 4–28, include a series of documentaries dedicated to ethnomusicologist and filmmaker Alan Lomax, who passed away last year, along with a Steinway Salon series performance from pianist Clipper Erickson and a finale event honoring the alternate history book The American Slave Coast with readings, commentary and music from New Orleans’ Donald Harrison.

More information on the Project Americana series is available here.