Jayme Stone's Folklife Feat. Alexa Wildish

MAS Presents:
Jayme Stone’s Folklife Feat. Alexa Wildish
Re-spun folk tunes, indie-pop originals, trance music from Timbuktu and more.

Jayme Stone (voice, banjo, guitar)
Alexa Wildish (voice)
Enmanuel Alexander (bass, guitar)
Greg Harris (synth, vibes, percussion)
Tobias Bank (drums)

BIOGRAPHY

Jayme Stone is an instigator. He has made seven albums and produced over 500 songs — from Gullah spirituals to Indie-pop songs, Trinidadian calypsos to Indian r?gas. “A consummate team player” (Downbeat), Stone has developed a process of trawling for understudied sounds in the more arcane corners of the world. His cross-continental collaborators have included Margaret Glaspy, Julian Lage, Tim O’Brien, Bassekou Kouyate, Yacouba Sissoko, Dom Flemons, Ranky Tanky, Trio Brasiliero, and many more.

Stone is a searchlight. He has made albums like the Lomax Project, which re-imagines songs collected by American folklorist Alan Lomax; Room of Wonders, a collection of folk dances from around the globe; Folklife, which plants the seeds of folk songs in modern soil; and AWake, a stargazing indie-pop album exploring the white-hot core of love and loss. Stone is known for sharing stories of the people and places behind the songs — a 13th century Bambara queen, the rutted roads of eastern Kentucky, a symphony inside a lightbulb, the Sea Island coastline. These narratives help situate the songs in their wider cultural, spiritual and ecological contexts.

Stone is a galvanizer. He has worked as a producer, composer, songwriter and educator. Career highlights include winning two Juno Awards, three Canadian Folk Music Awards; being featured on NPR, BBC, and CBC; and performing thousands of concerts including venues like the Lincoln and Kennedy Centers, Library of Congress, Rockygrass, Celtic Connections, Vancouver Folk Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Montréal Jazz Festival, and more.