Ashlee Watkins and Andrew Small come to Lotus from the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. Their acoustic instrumentation (fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and exquisite...
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Old songs, bold harmonies / US Known for the innovation of their arrangements, Windborne’s bold harmonies are unpredictable and showcase the profound power and variations...
Punjabi anthems / India Sonny Singh’s music is spiritual and rebellious, “vibrant, ebullient, and energized . . . a prayer for our ailing world” (JazzTimes)....
Occitan polyphony / France Occitan polyphony is the starting point for this six-voice and percussion collective who see themselves as modern troubadours. Their compositions use...
Taos Pueblo / US Grammy Award-winning musician Robert Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling that reflect his life in Taos...
Haitian roots music / Haiti From its home base at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, RAM has toured for more than 25 years, bringing Haiti’s...
Pan-Latin Dance Music / US Nosotros has been drawing music lovers to their distinctive Latin groove for over 20 years. What began as a guitar...
Ladino song / Spain, the Netherlands “What I like about writing in Ladino,” says Noam “Nani” Vazana, “is that when I look at the past,...
Mariachi / Mexico Under the direction of Javier León, Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste is an ensemble sponsored by the Indiana University Latin American Music...
Latin rock / US Making Movies blends pulsing Afro-Latino rhythms, psychedelic jams, and rock ’n’ roll swagger into powerful live performances. This Kansas City band...
Cajun / US Ann Savoy, Jane Vidrine, Anya Burgess, and Lisa Trahan play Cajun French musicfrom southwest Louisiana — from dancehall Cajun to primitive Creole,...
Malawi groove music Madalitso Band is a duo from Malawi who performs utterly infectious music with unconventional homemade instruments: a 4-string acoustic guitar and foot...
Venezuela meets Appalachia Larry & Joe were destined to make music together. Larry Bellorín, a legend of Llanera music, hails from Monagas, Venezuela. Joe Troop...
Afro-Colombian rhythms / Colombia This all-female percussionist group from Bogotá — Karen Forero, Giovanna Mo- gollón, and Diana Sanmiguel — mixes folk and Afro-Colombian rhythms...
Cape Verdean / US Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, researcher, and educator deeply engaged with the jazz tradition. A lifelong New Yorker of...
Singer & songwriter / US Krista Detor is a songwriter’s songwriter, a poet and storyteller whose songs can swing from wry humor to piercing tenderness...
Celtic roots music/US Kalos is Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson, and Jeremiah McLane, masters of tradition who explore both the dark corners and the joyful exuberance...
Dance from the African Diaspora / US Founded in 1974, Indiana University’s African American Dance Company brings Black dance to center stage — sharing movement...