Jake Blount in Concert (Outdoor Show)
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Jake Blount
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $15.00 Day of the Show: $20.00
Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents Jake Blount in concert in an Outdoor Show on Sunday, August 29, 2021.
Join us on the back porch of the Floyd Country Store for a live concert featuring Jake Blount with George Jackson, Rachel Eddy, and Nelson Williams. The show will have an in-person audience and air live on Facebook and YouTube.
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
In-person tickets are $15.00 in advance or $20.00 the day of show and available for sale online and in-store.
The livestream is free with donations accepted to support the musical artists and production costs of the concert.
For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/jake-blount-live-2021-08-29 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.
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