Sunset Wednesdays: Jake Blount
About This Event
Wave Hill's Sunset Wednesdays hosts Jake Blount, a Providence-based musician and writer known for his work with African American traditional music. Blount, an old-time banjo player and fiddler who describes his music as "genrequeer" and "Afrofuturist folklore," combines multi-instrumental playing and modern production to reinterpret centuries-old repertoire while foregrounding themes of social and environmental justice.
About the Artist
Jake Blount
Jake Blount is a Providence-based musician and writer who works with African American traditional music, bringing old-time banjo and fiddle into a wider multi-instrumental practice. He approaches centuries-old repertoire with contemporary tools, often building arrangements himself and treating genre as porous rather than fixed.