(Para español, vaya abajo) Anandi Bhattacharya – a child prodigy in a family filled with illustrious musicians and singers – gave her first radio performance at the age of four. Anandi grew up among music and musicians: her father is slide guitar master Debashish...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Kristin Adreassen, Rayna Gellert, KC Groves, and Abigail Washburn are back together – and kicking off our 25th festival in style. Fearless ambassadors for stringband music, Uncle Earl uses tradition as a springboard for their unique...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Aar Maanta (born Hassan-Nour Sayid) is a Somali-British singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Maanta spent his early years in Somalia, but on the eve of the civil war in the 1980s, he moved to the UK. Some describe his music as...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Karsh Kale is a genre-bending musical collaborator and a world-renowned tabla player. Exploring the worlds of electronica, Indian classical music, rock, jazz fusion, and hip hop has led Karsh to work with some of the most renowned artists in...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Join Dillon Bustin to reminisce and remember Indiana musician Quinten “Lotus” Dickey through stories, songs, and the silver screen. Audiences will hear from Lotus himself during the short film Water from Another Time (1982, co-directed by...
The Big Tent, a 360° video and audio projection installation/venue (free, located at 4th & Washington), leverages immersive technology to create a unique, communal viewing experience at Alumni Hall (located in the Indiana Memorial Union). In this age of individual...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Be part of bringing Brazil to Bloomington! An accomplished percussionist, teacher, and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Colleen Haas specializes in Brazilian music and is the lead artist for this year’s Lotus Summer Visual Arts Outreach program,...
Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a 12-member-plusguerilla-punk-klezmer band that delivers cathartic and exhilarating performances. On stage – or on Kirkwood – the Orkestra is a movable street scene. They bring the party with big brass, strings, drums, dance, and vocals.
Featuring Brittany Haas (fiddle), Paul Kowert (bass), Jordan Tice (guitar), and Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Hawktail has played with bands like Crooked Still, Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, the Prairie Home Companion, among others…
(Para español, vaya abajo) 2018 Kat Domingo Memorial Artist* Aynur is the voice of a culture: a Turkish-born Kurd, she sings Kurdish songs steeped in centuries of tradition and yet brings her own contemporary style to a folkloric repertoire. Aynur’s music focuses on...