Name: Jake Blount
Start: 2025-02-20T19:30:00
Location: Acadiana Center for the Arts

Jake Blount

Acadiana Center for the Arts

For two decades, Valcour Records has stood at the heart of Louisiana’s roots renaissance — preserving the traditions of Cajun, Creole, zydeco, and folk while amplifying the voices shaping its future. Founded in Eunice, Louisiana, by partners Joel Savoy and Phillip LaFargue, Valcour has become a touchstone for the state’s cultural identity, producing award-winning albums and nurturing artists whose music carries the sound and soul of Acadiana to audiences around the world.

Twenty Years of Valcour Records

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.