This is a clip from the terrific film, Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart, in which Fleck journeys through Africa tracing the roots of the banjo.
Music: Oumou Sangare and Béla Fleck — ‘Djorolen’
War in Context
… with attention to the unseen
This is a clip from the terrific film, Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart, in which Fleck journeys through Africa tracing the roots of the banjo.
Thanks so much for the post of Beela Fleck and Oumou Sangare. Fleck is one of our contemporary treasures. A great artist-and a great cat.
Oumou Sangare’s singing surpasses description yet always conveys an essential modesty. The same is true of Bela Fleck’s playing. He is not a virtuoso, but something more- a musician. This is a beautiful contribution to the site. Incidentally, there are hundreds of shows free to download from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at http://www.archive.org/details/BelaFleckandtheFlecktones