The Floyd Radio Show with Jake Blount & Tatiana Hargreaves
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Organizations: Jake Blount, Tatiana Hargreaves
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2017
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Speaking Engagements
Cost:

Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents The 2017 Floyd Radio Show's October Show featuring Jake Blount and Tatiana Hargreaves on Saturday, October 7, 2017 starting at 7:30 pm.

The second show of our 7th season features Jake Blount, Tatiana Hargreaves, Magda Giannikou and Ignacio Hernandez (from Banda Magda) plus Jason Dilg, Rob LaPrelle and much more!

Live from The Floyd Country Store in the heart of downtown Floyd, Virginia! The Floyd Country Store brings together a new variety show every month. A series of guest hosts will perform original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more. Each show features the finest old-timey musical acts, from storytelling banjo players to flatpicking guitarists to hard-driving string bands.

Jake Blount is a fiddler, banjo player and scholar based in Ithaca, New York. He has studied with modern masters of old-time music, including Bruce Molsky, Judy Hyman (of the Horse Flies), and Rhiannon Giddens and Hubby Jenkins (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops).

He centers and venerates his racial and ethnic heritage through his approach to music and its history. 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 his B.A. in Ethnomusicology from Hamilton College and released his debut EP, “Reparations,” with award-winning fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves. Blount has since been invited to share his music and research at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and numerous other museums, colleges and universities.

Links:

• http://jakeblount.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/notjacobnotblunt
• https://www.youtube.com/user/JakeMBlount

Since releasing her first solo album “Started Out To Ramble” in 2009, Tatiana Hargreaves has toured with musicians from Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch, to Laurie Lewis, Bruce Molsky, and Darol Anger. From being the second woman to place first at the Clifftop Appalachian Fiddle Contest in 2009 to the 2015 release of an EP with bassist Ethan Jodziewicz featuring traditional and original material performed by the unique duo of bowed bass and fiddle, Tatiana is dedicated to respecting and preserving old time and bluegrass traditions while simultaneously seeking her own musical voice and exploring new ways of approaching these styles.

In 2012 and 2013 she attended the Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival, collaborating with other young acoustic musicians to explore contemporary approaches to traditional American roots genres. In the winter of 2015 she participated in the Dosti Music Project, a State Department funded program that brings together musicians from Pakistan, India and the US for a month of musical diplomacy and collaboration. Early 2016 saw three months of intensive study at La Fundación Alejo Carpentier in Havana, Cuba researching the role of the violin in Cuban music.

Currently, Tatiana is pursuing a degree in ethnomusicology at Hampshire College and researching “the fiddle camp phenomenon.”

Link: https://www.facebook.com/tatianahargreaves

Tickets for The Floyd Radio Show are $12.00 in advance or $15.00 the day of the show or $90.00 for the season. They are available online, at the store, or by calling 540-745-4563.

To purchase tickets online, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/events/category/the-floyd-radio-show.

Each show is streamed live during the show and is available as a podcast. Many of the past show are re-broadcasted by partnering radio stations.

For more information, visit: http://www.floydcountrystore.com/radio-show or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.