Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
17th annual • September 16-19, 2010 • Bloomington, Indiana
Presented by
Indiana University-Bloomington and
The National Endowment for the Arts
The annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival celebrates the diversity, beauty, and joy of music and arts from cultures around the world. 2010 dates are September 16-19.
The Festival is proudly based in downtown Bloomington and named in part for Indiana musician Lotus Dickey (1911-1989).
A wristband is your passport to 20+ performances each showcase night, at multiple venues. Stages range from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to standing-room-only street tents, to quiet churches where traditional acoustic music shines.
Design your own Lotus experience: Fit every performance into your schedule, dashing from venue to venue, or savor just a few. And a word of advice from veteran festival-goers: keep your options open for the unusual and the unexpected.
Lotus offers both ticketed showcases and free events for all ages. Saturday’s Lotus in the Park is packed with live performances, hands-on art projects, and interactive workshops with Festival artists.
A note about 2010 Festival dates and Yom Kippur:
We must pick dates without an Indiana University home football game (when every hotel is booked solid); we must also try to coordinate our dates with other Midwest world music festivals, with whom we collaborate to book artists (all are in September). For 2010, the only available weekend within our festival window was September 16-19, which unfortunately coincides with Yom Kippur. We sincerely apologize to our Jewish fans.
