Volunteer Faces — 2010 Festival

Volunteer coordinator Tamara Loewenthal

Even though you see Lotus volunteers everywhere during the festival, it’s surprising to to hear how many people donate their time to help us produce this complicated, labor-intensive event. This year, we had more than 500.

Kudos to our Lotus World Music and Arts Festival volunteers. You set up tents, signs, fencing, lights, tables, chairs, and staging – and then you took everything down when the festival was over. You worked at venues, sold tickets and merchandise, served food, attached wristbands. You shuttled artists and made them feel at home in Bloomington. You thought on your feet, and solved problems on the fly. Committee members planned, pondered, and put in long hours over the summer.

Thanks to our Lotus Festival Steering Committee — who planned and executed efficient and entertaining orientations — 2010 festival volunteers were the best-trained to date, and arrived for their shifts fully prepared for their assignments.

You did whatever need to be done, because you love the festival, the music, the good vibrations. We are so very grateful. We couldn’t do it without you.

In addition to being the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation’s Volunteer Coordinator, Tamara Loewenthal is a percussive dancer, dance caller, and musician. She is one half (along with fiddler Jamie Gans) of the duo Fiddle ‘n’ Feet.

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Images by Pat Glushko, Andy Qualls, Michael Redman, and Levi Thomas; profile picture of Tamara by Jeff Hammond.