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Jake Blount
Eastside, Syracuse
Award-winning scholar and performer Jake Blount brings his genre-defying approach to Black folk music to the stage, blending traditional string band sounds with modern techniques and Afrofuturist vision.
Jake Blount
Afrofuturist Black folk musician, string‑band multi‑instrumentalist
Headliner
Jake Blount is an award‑winning scholar and performer of Black folk music who blends traditional string‑band repertoire with Afrofuturist aesthetics, using banjo, fiddle, electric guitar and synthesizer. He has released albums on Smithsonian Folkways, performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival, and opened for Grammy winners like Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle.
Jake Blount
Eastside, Syracuse
Award-winning scholar and performer Jake Blount brings his genre-defying approach to Black folk music to the stage, blending traditional string band sounds with modern techniques and Afrofuturist vision.
Jake Blount
Afrofuturist Black folk musician, string‑band multi‑instrumentalist
Headliner
Jake Blount is an award‑winning scholar and performer of Black folk music who blends traditional string‑band repertoire with Afrofuturist aesthetics, using banjo, fiddle, electric guitar and synthesizer. He has released albums on Smithsonian Folkways, performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival, and opened for Grammy winners like Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle.