Give Me the Banjo (2011)

November. 04,2011

7.3

| Documentary Music

The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that chronicle the journey of America’s quintessential instrument—the banjo—from its African roots to the 21st century. It’s a collaboration between Emmy-winning writer-producer Marc Fields and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka (the Project’s Music Director), one of the most acclaimed acoustic musicians of his generation.

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Cast

Béla Fleck as Self

[2017] The Porchlight Sessions [2011] Give Me the Banjo [2008] Throw Down Your Heart [2002] Béla Fleck & the Flecktones: Live at the Quick

Dom Flemons as Self

[2012] We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash [2011] Give Me the Banjo

Rhiannon Giddens as Self

[2015] David Holt's State of Music [2014] Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued [2013] Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' [2012] We Walk The Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash [2011] Give Me the Banjo

Reviews

Mjeteconer

2011/11/04

Just perfect...

Reptileenbu

2011/11/05

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Invaderbank

2011/11/06

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Donald Seymour

2011/11/07

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.