Eclectic banjo player Bela Fleck [ tickets ] launches a month-long tour on Friday (10/5) in support of his Sony Classical debut album, "Perpetual Motion." The tour teams him with bassist Edgar Meyer.

Fleck is best known for his work with his fusion band, the Flecktones, which won a Grammy this year for their most recent album, "Outbound." Fleck had won four previous Grammys.

His Sony Classical album contains popular repertoire transcribed for banjo, including work by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. The album's supporting players are all major figures in the classical world, including violinist Joshua Bell, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, guitarist John Williams and bassist Meyer.

Meyer is as well known for his country work as he is for his classical, having performed with Garth Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Hank Williams Jr., Lyle Lovett and others. He was a member of the bluegrass act Strength in Numbers, and has recorded with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emmanuel Ax and violinist Bell.

Fleck and Meyer will perform as a duo for the length of the tour, which ends on Halloween at Lincoln Center in Fleck's home town of New York City. A spokesperson said that approximately a quarter of the tour's set list is drawn from "Perpetual Motion."

Fleck and Meyer, who was born in Oklahoma and lives in Nashville, appeared together earlier this year on the album "Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology," one of Sony Classical's several recent productions that meld classical and country music. Fleck also appeared on Meyer's 1997 album "Uncommon Ritual."

Sony has a promotional websitefeaturing music and video from the "Perpetual Motion" project.

As soon as the classical stint is completed, Fleck and his Flecktones head to Europe for a tour, through Nov. 11, after which they'll spend the remainder of the year in the studio, according to the band's website.