BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:756b8e36-9b6c-434f-9fa3-4218c94de116@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T233715Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T213000 SUMMARY:Jake Blount DESCRIPTION:TICKET LINK | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jake-blount-sugar- maple-concert-series-tickets-1993603746472?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=tr ue Sugar Maple Concert Series | Jake Blount (pronounced: blunt) is an aw ard-winning scholar and performer of Black folk music based in Providenc e\, RI. Initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician\, B lount has charted an unprecedented\, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrima ge through sound archives and song collections. In his hands\, the banjo \, fiddle\, electric guitar and synthesizer become ceremonial objects us ed to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. From transfixin g solo sets to full-band festival appearances complete with crowd-surfin g and ecstatic chants\, Blount’s performances - like his recent Smithson ian Folkways releases\, symbiont (2024) and The New Faith (2022) - seaml essly merge centuries-old traditional songs with the trappings and techn iques of modern Black genres. This “ genrequeer ” approach to the tradit ions has earned his music a place in the very same archives from which h e extracts his repertoire. In defiance of genre categories\, revisionist histories and linear time\, Blount fashions an “ Afrofuturist folklore ” that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric\, arti st and medium\, and ancestor and progeny. Balancing his taste for arcane source material with his desire to reach diverse audiences\, Blount has shared his music at venues including Carnegie Hall\, Newport Folk Festi val\, the Library of Congress and NPR’s Tiny Desk. His knowledge and ski ll have deepened over the course of his still-young career\, and his vis ion has grown more ambitious - but his music has only grown in popular a ppeal. Starting with his full-length debut Spider Tales (2020)\, each of Blount's records has appeared on "best of year" lists from outlets incl uding Bandcamp\, The New Yorker\, NPR\, The Guardian\, and Rolling Stone . With the Steve Martin Banjo Prize\, two International Folk Music Award s nominations and two first-place ribbons from Clifftop already under hi s belt\, Blount’s star continues to rise. Blount’s thoughtful musiciansh ip has made him a sought-after collaborator. He has contributed to recor dings by Adia Victoria\, Dave Hause\, Adeem The Artist and others\, open ed for GRAMMY-winners Rhiannon Giddens\, Molly Tuttle\, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops\, and traveled the world as a member of string bands Ne w Dangerfield\, Tui\, and The Moose Whisperers. He regularly shares the stage with skilled contemporaries such as Mali Obomsawin\, George Jackso n and Nic Gareiss\, and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet on their so ld-out 50th Anniversary performance at Carnegie Hall. Blount also served as a music consultant on Ryan Coogler's 2025 film Sinners\, scored by L udwig Göransson\, and contributed music to Ken Burns's The American Revo lution (2025) alongside Giddens. In addition to his public-facing achiev ements\, Blount has an impressive industry track record. He has performe d as an official showcase artist at Folk Alliance International\, SXSW\, AmericanaFest and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass. He was a 2020 Strathmore Artist In Residence\, and partic ipated in the IBMA’s Leadership Bluegrass program in the same year. An e meritus board member of Bluegrass Pride\, Blount is known as a strong ad vocate for progressive causes within the music industry\, and appears re gularly on conference panels pertaining to social and environmental just ice. His writings on music and issues facing the industry have appeared in publications including Rolling Stone\, NPR\, Paste Magazine and No De pression. Blount is also a skilled educator. In addition to his on-stage offerings\, his engagements frequently include lectures and presentatio ns pertaining to both his original research and the history of Black str ing band music. He has shared this work at Yale University\, Berklee Col lege of Music\, the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere. He also makes regular appearances at music camps\, most notably Earful of Fiddle Musi c & Dance Camp\, offering hands-on instruction in fiddle and banjo. Blou nt holds an A.M. in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University \, where he is working toward a Ph.D. in the same—as well as an A.M. in Anthropology. Blount performs on a five-string fiddle made by Nathaniel Rowan\, and banjos from Seeders Instruments and Pete Ross Banjos. His CV is available here. “Blount is a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist... with a hauntingly gorgeous voice and a bottomless\, scholarly knowledge of A merican musical history.” - Katherine Proctor — The Los Angeles Times\n\ nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jake-blount-sugar-maple-concert-s eries-tickets-1993603746472\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/756b8e3 6-9b6c-434f-9fa3-4218c94de116 LOCATION:North Street Cabaret\, Madison\, WI URL:https://findlocal.community/event/756b8e36-9b6c-434f-9fa3-4218c94de11 6 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR