Jake Blount in concert

Join us for a special concert with Jake Blount, award-winning performer and scholar of Black folk music. A talented multi-instrumentalist—from the banjo to fiddle to electric guitar to synthesizer—Blount creates his own “Afrofuturist folklore.” Blount has shared his music at venues including Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, the Library of Congress and NPR’s Tiny Desk.

Blount’s first album, “Spider Tales,” debuted at number two on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the International Folk Music Awards. Blount’s two most recent albums, “The New Faith” and “Symbiont,” were released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of their African-American Legacy Series.

In the lecture hall.