Jake Blount’s Afrofuturist Salon

Saturday, April 18 from 2-5pm

Ticketed event: $10

*NOTE: If you’re a CCFF passholder and interested in attending this event, please email Dylan@therobintheatre.com to inquire about seating availability.

Jake Blount (pronounced: blunt) is an award-winning scholar and performer of Black folk music based in Providence, RI. Initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Blount has charted an unprecedented, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections. In his hands, the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. From transfixing solo sets to full-band festival appearances complete with crowd-surfing and ecstatic chants, Blount’s performances – like his recent Smithsonian Folkways releases, symbiont (2024) and The New Faith (2022) – seamlessly merge centuries-old traditional songs with the trappings and techniques of modern Black genres. This “genrequeer” approach to the traditions has earned his music a place…