[Unedited] Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He’s followed what many experience as this quintessential American roots instrument back to its roots in Africa, and he’s taken it where no banjo has gone before. Abigail Washburn is a celebrated banjo player and singer, both in English and Chinese. These two are partners in music and in life — recovering something ancient and deeply American all at once, bringing both beauty and refreshment to what they play and how they live.

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0:00.0	Support for Onbeing with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.8	Fetzer's new study, What does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.6	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:25.0	Next, my unedited live conversation with music, with banjo icons, Bala Flack and Abigail
0:32.1	Washburn.
0:33.6	There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.6	So I was telling them at Nashville Public Radio today, I was telling them the story of how
0:45.3	we had the invitation to come do an event in Nashville.
0:48.3	And Trent Gillis, who's here somewhere, put a note out on Facebook and Twitter and asking
0:55.0	people who we should interview.
0:57.3	And so a bunch of names came back.
1:00.6	And then your two names came back.
1:03.0	And I just had to connect you to Nashville.
1:04.6	And you don't know this.
1:05.6	I haven't told you this yet.
1:06.6	But we intersected in a place far from Nashville.
1:10.0	We didn't meet.
1:11.0	But in Ticate at Rancho L'Oprento.
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