FREE Tickets to See Béla Fleck; Performance + Q&A + ‘Throw Down Your Heart’ Documentary
Coolidge Theatre is like my middle school girlfriends. I go over to see her, we sit in the dark for a couple hours watching a flick and by the end my legs and arms are sore and tired because I was too nervous to invade her personal space.
Coolidge Theatre is not like my middle school girlfriends because they never brought Béla Fleck over to answer my questions and play music for me. Granted in middle school I didn’t know who Béla Fleck was, but that doesn’t excuse them for not thinking of my future interests.
In order to make ammends for my middle school girlfriends I am (with the help of the generous folks at Coolidge) offering up two pairs of totally free tickets to see Béla Fleck’s recent documentary Throw Down Your Heart. Béla Fleck will be there to introduce the film, answer questions and perform!
The screening is on July 9th at 7pm.
HOW TO WIN:
- Leave your name and email address in the comments below and I’ll pick two lucky winners who will each get a pair of tickets.
- Contest ends Tuesday July 6th at 11:59pm (in order to make the whole affair more dramatic).
- Simple right? Here’s an example to make sure there is no confusion whatsoever.: aaron enoughcowbell at gmail dot com.
More on the proceedings follows, courtesy of Coolidge Theatre:
THROW DOWN YOUR HEART
Film Preview at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
with introduction, Q&A and performance by banjo pioneer Béla Fleck
Thurs, July 9 at 7 pmTHROW DOWN YOUR HEART follows American banjo great Béla Fleck on his journey through Africa to explore the roots of the banjo and record an album. Fleck’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of Africa and the richness and diversity of its musical traditions. During his travels, Fleck works with an array of musicians – from local villagers who play a twelve-foot xylophone, to a family that makes and plays the akonting (thought by many to be the original banjo), to international superstars such as the Malian diva Oumou Sangare. Using his banjo, Fleck transcends barriers of language and culture, finding common ground with musicians from very different backgrounds.
Considered by many to be the world’s premiere banjo player, Béla Fleck is a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock, classical, and world music. The multiple Grammy winner has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo in a performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical and geographic map. He is best known at the helm of the groundbreaking group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
Tickets to the July 9 preview available in advance online at www.coolidge.org/showtimes or at the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office, located at 290 Harvard Street in Brookline. The Coolidge will present additional screenings of THROW DOWN YOUR HEART beginning July 10. For more information, visit www.coolidge.org or call 617/734-2500.
Official THROW DOWN YOUR HEART site: http://www.throwdownyourheart.com/.
Critical Buzz:
“An exhilarating feast of sight and sound.”
LA Times“You don’t need to know the language to be gripped by the force…”
New York Times“Vibrant and spontaneous…”
Film Threat“A heartfelt personal journey…refreshing”
Village Voice“Both the documentary and the disc of Throw Down Your Heart justify their existence independently—and rather beautifully.”
Time Out New York“Demonstrates that no other language is needed when two people sit down with their instruments and make them sing.”
San Francisco Chronicle
