If you try to describe the music of Providence-based artist and scholar Jake Blount, chances are you may fall short. And in a few months time, that description could be totally off. He plays the fiddle, banjo, and guitar, and you could say it’s “traditional” or “folk.” But to some people, that might mean something […]
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Studio Session: Musician Jake Blount’s Afrofuturist vision of a post climate-change world
The Providence local imagines what traditional Black American folk music will sound like in a world where rising seas, desertification and natural disasters have rendered much of the world uninhabitable.
