This Creative Conversation features artist Jake Blount; Adrienne Taylor, Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks; and Professor Jamille Pinheiro Dias, visiting faculty at Brown University. Moderated by Sebastian Ruth, Founder and […]
Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are award-winning musicians who have joined forces on their Smithsonian Folkways release, symbiont (2024). Blount (pronounced “blunt”) is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music who is recognized […]
BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon, calabash, bass guitar and voice, and Matchume Zango on timbila, mbira, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation […]
