Jake Blount with Megan Jean at The Deep End

16 West Main Street,Frostburg MD 21532

14 November, 2021

Description

Steve Martin Banjo Prize winner Jake Blount at the Deep End Sunday, November 14 in Frostburg, MD with special guest Megan Jean Jake Blount is an award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and scholar based in Providence, RI. He is half of the internationally touring duo Tui, a 2020 recipient of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, and a board member of Bluegrass Pride. He is a two-time winner and many-time finalist of the Appalachian String Band Music Festival (better known as Clifftop). Although he is proficient in multiple performance styles, he specializes in the music of Black and indigenous communities in the southeastern United States, and in the regional style of Ithaca, New York. He foregrounds the experiences of queer people and people of color in his work. 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 GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops). Sharing the evening with him will be Megan Jean and Byrne Klay of Megan Jean and the KFB for a special acoustic songwriter set