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Jake Blount at The Robin

Wed, Sep 21

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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.

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Jake Blount at The Robin
Jake Blount at The Robin

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 our worst fears on the shores of an island in Maine, where Blount enacts an imagined religious ceremony performed by Black refugees after the collapse of global civilization due to catastrophic climate change. Jake Blount’s music is rooted in care and confrontation. On stage, each song he and his band play is chosen for a reason - because it highlights important elements about the stories we tell ourselves of our shared history and our endlessly complicated present moment. The more we learn about where we’ve been, the better equipped we are to face the future.

Blount will be accompanied by a 3-piece band for this performance.

LINKS:

Website: https://jakeblount.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjacobnotblunt/

Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/jake.m.blount/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/forked_queer

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/63yfJDmaBbifNzvWUUdpv1

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