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Sultans of String 'The Grand Bazaar' featuring; Bela Fleck & Robi Botos gets IMA nom

Sultans of String 'The Grand Bazaar' was written by Chris McKhool, Kevin Laliberté, Drew Birston, Rosendo León, and features Béla Fleck – banjo, Robi Botos – piano, keyboard, Gundem Yayli Grubu – Turkish strings 

Béla Fleck reflects: "My family's story involves immigration. Of course, we came in through Ellis Island, my grandparents on my mother's side, Jewish-Russian refugees... I was really fortunate that they were able to get out of a dangerous part of the world, and that America took them in at that time. The banjo is a story of immigration. It's a perfect story of immigration, involuntary immigration. The slaves came to the Americas, not of their own free will, but when they got there, they brought their culture. They built banjos and they played their music, and it got incorporated into what would become American music, and became a major part of it. Yeah, if the banjo isn't going to welcome people from different countries, I don't know who would."

Sultans of String release; ‘Refuge' is produced by Chris McKhool and John ‘Beetle' Bailey. Congrats to Sultans of String as 'The Grand Bazaar' receives an 'Independent Music Award' nomination.