NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The community is invited to a concert on Nov. 2 with Jake Blount, an award-winning musician and scholar based in Providence, RI. 
 
Blount will perform at 7 p.m. at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Church Street Center. The concert is open to the public with an admission fee of $10 for the general public, $5 for faculty/staff/MCLA alumni, and free for current students.  
 
According to a press release:
 
A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana.  
 
Blount is a two-time winner of the Appalachian String Band Music Festival and a specialist in the early folk music of Black Americans. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Newport Folk Festival, and numerous other venues across the country and beyond.