Bela Fleck keeping audience on its toes

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Maceo Parker, Umphrey's McGee 7 p.m.Sunday

Star Plaza Theatre, I-65 and U.S. 30,

Merrillville, Ind.

Tickets, $30.25

(219) 769-6600 or (312) 559-1212

There are not many artists who ink multi-album deals with a majorlabel, and even fewer whose contracts allow them to record differentprojects for the label's various genre-specific imprints.

However, when the artist in question is Bela Fleck, the rules arebound to change.

Fleck, in conjunction with his band the Flecktones (bassist VictorWooten, percussionist/vocalist Future Man, and saxophonist JeffCoffin), has built a reputation upon seamlessly uniting …