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Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate - 2009 Tour Dates (free show @ Central Park Summerstage TONIGHT/Monday)
Bela Fleck throws down his heart...
Béla Fleck will continue exploring African music this summer on two separate, celebrated tours: the ³always adventurous² (USA Today) banjo master will join Oumou Sangare and her band, and revive his acclaimed duo run with Toumani Diabate. Sangare, the great Malian singer known as the ³Songbird of the Wassoulou,² is considered Fleck¹s gateway to African music and prominently featured in his renowned documentary and album Throw Down Your Heart. Toumani Diabate, a 71st generation Kora master, collaborated with Fleck throughout 2009, including performances at Telluride and Bonnaroo.The NYC stop on the Bela/Toumani tour is the previously-announced, free show at Central Park Summerstage which happens tonight (Monday, August 3rd). The movie trailer and all dates below...Throw Down Your Heart is the 11-time Grammy winner's most ambitious project to date and has earned some of the best reviews of his career...
Throw Down Your Heart
Bela Fleck & Toumani Diabate - 2009 Tour Dates
Aug 3 New York, NY Summerstage
Aug 4 Brownfield, ME Stone Mountain Arts Center
Aug 5 Rutland, VT Paramount Theater
Aug 6 Montreal, CAN Franco Folies Festival
Aug 7 Orkney Springs, VA Shenandoah Valley Music Festival
Aug 9 Edmonton, CAN Folk Festival
Aug 10-11 - Seattle, WA Jazz Alley
Aug 12 - Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theater
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This looks interesting as well, Austin 9/13
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http://www.utpac.org/event/fleck
Posted by TXn | August 3, 2009 5:04 PM
toumani is a heart stealer and a heart breaker
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:08 PM
hipsters stay home. you will be BORED.
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:10 PM
Think this will be crowded?
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:27 PM
This was a fantastic movie.
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:30 PM
toumani slays is live.
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:38 PM
more like..Mehla Fleck
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:53 PM
"hipsters stay home. you will be BORED."
you really think other people are just cartoons, don't you? please look up the word "empathy"
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 5:58 PM
"more like..Mehla Fleck"
Bela Fleck is such a better musician than anyone you listen to! No, I have no idea what you listen to but to make a comment such as you did, I just assume you are a tasteless bonehead fuckwad. Kthanxbye!
Posted by Anonymous | August 3, 2009 9:11 PM