Jake Blount at The Robin
Wed, Sep 21
|Lansing
We're thrilled to present Jake Blount, the virtuoso musician and a scholar of Black American music, at The Robin! A rising star in the national folk music scene, Blount will perform songs off of his new album, 'New Faith'. More info at the link! 7:30 showtime.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2022, 7:30 PM
Lansing, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910, USA
About The Event
7PM doors
7:30 show
All ages
BYOB from Sleepwalker (next door to venue)
A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of the year’s best albums by NPR and The New Yorker, earned a perfect 5-star review from The Guardian) highlighted the Black and Indigenous histories of popular American folk tunes, as well as revived songs unjustly forgotten in the whitewashing of the canon.
Jake Blount’s new album, The New Faith, is a towering achievement of dystopian Afrofuturism and his first album for Smithsonian Folkways (coming September 23, 2022). The New Faith is spiritual music, filled with hope for salvation and righteous anger in equal measure. The album manifests…
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