Jake Blount is a fiddler, banjoist, singer, and scholar who digs deeps into his own personal heritage.
Jake Blount is a fiddler, banjoist, singer, and scholar who digs deeps into his own personal heritage. Blount’s performances and compositions shine a light on the traditional music of Black and Indigenous communities in the American South and strive to preserve this art form. In 2016, Blount became the first Black person to make the finals at the prestigious Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, West Virginia, and the first to win in the traditional band category. In the following year, he received a bachelor of arts in ethnomusicology from Hamilton College and released his debut EP, Reparations, with award-winning fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves. He has shared his music and research at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, and other museums, colleges, and universities.
$19
Aug 25 is at AMP
Phone: 301-581-5100
Email: strathmore@strathmore.org
2020/08/07 - 2020/08/25
The Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852
Parking for Mansion concerts and events is generally free on a space-available basis in the adjacent Mansion lot. For full parking information and directions, please visit www.strathmore.org/your-visit/directions-and-parking.