Jake Blount w/Bad Posture Club at 7th Street Entry

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.

Bad Posture Club is a Minneapolis-based folk duo made up by Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Their songwriting explores themes of home-places, landscapes, memory, family, and the strange relationship between human softness and the unyielding societal structures we both participate in, and push against. When reinterpreting traditional folk songs, they carve out space and agency for queer female voices. Drawing the listener in with unusually close vocal harmony and sparse instrumental arrangements, Bad Posture Club creates intimacy and warmth, inviting togetherness in song.