About Jake Blount
Come feed your soul on the artistry of Jake Blount, award-winning interpreter of Black folk music. In his hands, the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar, and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the creativity of his forebears. He seamlessly merges centuries-old traditional songs with the trappings and techniques of modern Black genres. His “genrequeer” approach and “Afrofuturist folklore” perspective melt the lines between acoustic and electric, artist and medium, and ancestor and progeny. Blount has performed at top-flight venues including Carnegie Hall and Newport Folk Festival, and he has earned the Steve Martin Banjo Prize and two International Folk Music Awards nominations. He’s been lauded by the Los Angeles Times as “a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist... with a hauntingly gorgeous voice and a bottomless, scholarly knowledge of American musical history.”