Jake Blount, Simon Chrisman, and Nic Gareiss

Jake Blount is an award-winning interpreter of Black folk music. Initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Blount has charted an unprecedented, Afrofuturist course on his pilgrimage through sound archives and song collections. Composer and hammer dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman brings an unusual and path-breaking style to the instrument. One of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch," Nic Gareiss has been hailed by the New York Times for his "dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance" and called "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald.