Providence, Rhode Island-based singer-songwriter Jake Blount spent COVID-19's quarantine evolving into the unwitting face and hands of Afrofuturism's banjo-strumming past, present, and future. 2020 ...

The first show Jake Blount ever played professionally was at a furniture maker’s workshop in Hillsborough, N.C. Blount, who specializes in performing Black American traditional music, played a set of ...

When folklorists went to the American South last century to record and preserve traditional string band music, they probably didn’t imagine that someday a 27-year-old like Jake Blount would come along ...

“The New Faith” is a beautifully crafted Afrofuturist album by Jake Blount that tells the story of a group of Black climate refugees who are “cursed to wander” the planet after it’s devastated by ...

A bumper sticker commonly seen on vehicles at string band gatherings reads: “Old-time music: Better than it sounds.” Providence-based multi-instrumentalist Jake Blount is out to prove that those ...

If you ever listened to Jake Blount's (pronounced Blunt) music, it defies description, making it unforgettable. He describes his style as "playing fiddle and banjo from Black and Native American ...

On Blount's new concept album, the singer, scholar and multi-instrumentalist reimagines field recordings of spirituals to tell a story about a... Generations ago, gospel giants Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...

Afrofuturist folk musician Jake Blount and indigenous bassist and composer Mali Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) have announced a collaborative album, symbiont, which will be out September 27 via ...

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Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts hosted Jake Blount, a musician and scholar of Black American music, Sept. 20 in an intimate masterclass on Georgetown’s Gonda Theater stage.