Béla Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart

Beautiful, haunting music dominates this uplifting, entertaining, informative 2008 documentary in which Nashville banjo player Béla Fleck travels to Uganda, Tanzania, Gambia, Senegal, and Mali to research the origins of the banjo, which has its roots in Africa, and to record an album that features his banjo playing and the musical storytelling of professional folk musician Walusimbi Nsimbami Haruna, thumb piano player Ruth Akella, marimba player Anania Ngoliga, guitarists John Kitimi and Djelimady Tounkara, akonting player Jil Ekona Jatta, singers Oumou Sangore and Ami Sacko, and ngoni player Mustafa Kouyate.
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