Jayme Stone's Folklife
at
Village Green in Cutchogue
Main Road Cutchogue, NY 11935
Thursday, July 31st, 2025, 7:00pm
Jayme Stone Band
Jayme Stone (banjo, voice, guitar)
Christina Courtin (voice, violin)
Ilan Blank (guitar, voice)
Nate Sabat (bass, voice)
Presentation
Folklife treats old field recordings not as time capsules, but as heirloom seeds passed down from a bygone generation. Planting these sturdy seeds in modern soil, this versatile gathering of musicians has cultivated vibrant Sea Island spirituals, Creole calypsos and stomp-down Appalachian dance tunes for contemporary audiences. They also explore Stone’s diverse catalog with entrancing indie-pop originals and songs from East and West Africa.
Folklife’s concerts and educational programs are moving and participatory experiences that prove folk songs are indeed perennials for the people.
Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this "collaboratory" brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea shanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fisherman, prisoners and homemakers.
Program
1. Candy Gal
2.Mwen Pas Danse
3.There Is More Love Somewhere
4.Hey, Lally Lo
5.Drunken Hiccups
6.Buttermilk
7.Hallelujah
8.Boatsman
9.That's All Right
10.Wait On The Rising Sun
Folklife treats old field recordings not as time capsules, but as heirloom seeds passed down from a bygone generation. Planting these sturdy seeds in modern soil, this versatile gathering of musicians has cultivated vibrant Sea Island spirituals, Creole calypsos and stomp-down Appalachian dance tunes for contemporary audiences. They also explore Stone’s diverse catalog with entrancing indie-pop originals and songs from East and West Africa.
Folklife’s concerts and educational programs are moving and participatory experiences that prove folk songs are indeed perennials for the people.
Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this "collaboratory" brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea shanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fisherman, prisoners and homemakers.
Program
1. Candy Gal
2.Mwen Pas Danse
3.There Is More Love Somewhere
4.Hey, Lally Lo
5.Drunken Hiccups
6.Buttermilk
7.Hallelujah
8.Boatsman
9.That's All Right
10.Wait On The Rising Sun
Reviews:
"This is the second of banjo player Jayme Stone’s albums based on the field recordings made by folklorist John Lomax for the Library of Congress in the US, South America and in England in the late 1930s through the late 1950s. You won’t hear the songs you may already know the way you are used to and Stone – along with some friends like singer/accordionist Moira Smiley and fiddler Sumaia Jackson and others- give these songs new setting which, honestly, captured me enough to hit the “repeat” button immediately after my first play through. These are all “traditional” songs (with no author credit) that Lomax hear from folks like Bessie Jones (in the Georgia Sea Islands), or NC fiddler Marcus Martin or by visiting the 56th Annual United Sacred Harp Convention in Alabama in 1959." Steve Ramm
Two-time JUNO-winning banjoist, composer and instigator Jayme Stone makes music inspired by sounds from around the world— bridging folk, jazz and chamber music. His award-winning albums both defy and honor the banjo’s long role in the world’s music, turning historical connections into compelling sounds.
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (2015) focused on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax. The collaboratory brought together distinctive roots musicians to revive, recycle and reimagine traditional music. The repertoire included Bahamian sea shanties, Gullah spirituals, Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners and homemakers.
This is a production of
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
Cutchogue - New Suffolk Historical Council
"This is the second of banjo player Jayme Stone’s albums based on the field recordings made by folklorist John Lomax for the Library of Congress in the US, South America and in England in the late 1930s through the late 1950s. You won’t hear the songs you may already know the way you are used to and Stone – along with some friends like singer/accordionist Moira Smiley and fiddler Sumaia Jackson and others- give these songs new setting which, honestly, captured me enough to hit the “repeat” button immediately after my first play through. These are all “traditional” songs (with no author credit) that Lomax hear from folks like Bessie Jones (in the Georgia Sea Islands), or NC fiddler Marcus Martin or by visiting the 56th Annual United Sacred Harp Convention in Alabama in 1959." Steve Ramm
Two-time JUNO-winning banjoist, composer and instigator Jayme Stone makes music inspired by sounds from around the world— bridging folk, jazz and chamber music. His award-winning albums both defy and honor the banjo’s long role in the world’s music, turning historical connections into compelling sounds.
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (2015) focused on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax. The collaboratory brought together distinctive roots musicians to revive, recycle and reimagine traditional music. The repertoire included Bahamian sea shanties, Gullah spirituals, Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners and homemakers.
This is a production of
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
Cutchogue - New Suffolk Historical Council
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 rāgas. “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 field worker.
He spent three months in Mali, West Africa studying with kora and n’goni players, making field recordings, and investigating the banjo’s African roots. He sat in with Toumani Diabate’s famed Symmetric Orchestra and played with griots, buskers and elders—under baobab trees, at the confluence of the Niger and Bani Rivers, and as part of an all night ceremony in the Dogon’s sandstone cliffs. He returned home to make the Juno award-winning album, Africa to Appalachia, a polyrhythmic tale of two continents in collaboration with Mansa Sissoko.
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.
PRESS QUOTES
“Groundbreaking."
SONGLINES
"A musical evangelist.”
EDMONTON JOURNAL
"A fresh contemporary take on musical treasures.”
NPR
He has made seven albums and produced over 500 songs—from Gullah spirituals to Indie-pop songs, Trinidadian calypsos to Indian rāgas. “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 field worker.
He spent three months in Mali, West Africa studying with kora and n’goni players, making field recordings, and investigating the banjo’s African roots. He sat in with Toumani Diabate’s famed Symmetric Orchestra and played with griots, buskers and elders—under baobab trees, at the confluence of the Niger and Bani Rivers, and as part of an all night ceremony in the Dogon’s sandstone cliffs. He returned home to make the Juno award-winning album, Africa to Appalachia, a polyrhythmic tale of two continents in collaboration with Mansa Sissoko.
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.
PRESS QUOTES
“Groundbreaking."
SONGLINES
"A musical evangelist.”
EDMONTON JOURNAL
"A fresh contemporary take on musical treasures.”
NPR
