Live music picks, March 5-10

SATURDAY
Bela Fleck’s “The Africa Project”
Adventurous banjo man Fleck journeyed to Africa to investigate the origins of his instrument. Some of the musicians he met there join him for this tour, including Mali’s Bassekou Kouyaté. Kouyaté plays the ngoni, an ancestor of the banjo. He and his group, Ngoni Ba, make a marvelous chiming sound by blending four ngonis. Check out the ensemble’s latest album, “I Speak Fula,” released last month.
8 p.m. March 6. $36-$62. Rialto Center for the Arts, 80 Forsyth St. N.W.,