Kieran Kane’s seminal work in The O'Kanes and Kane Welch Kaplin, as well as co-founding the independent label Dead Reckoning Records, laid the foundation for the contemporary world of Americana music. A successful solo artist, collaborator, and songwriter (with songs...
Pamyua showcases Inuit culture through music and dance performance. The show is a platform to share indigenous knowledge and history. Their style derives from traditional melodies reinterpreted with contemporary vocalization and instrumentation. Often described as...
Forró. Funk. Brass. Pounded by calloused hands; blasted by tight grooves. It calls across time and continents - with a response from hips and feet. It’s the force that blew through Louis Armstrong in the twenties. It’s the power that gets Brazilians swinging in the...
Blato Zlato is a New Orleans-based Balkan band that puts a contemporary Louisiana twist on traditional folk music from Eastern Europe. The band performs dark, improvisational arrangements with particular focus on Bulgarian folk songs, three-part vocal harmonies, and...
Molly Evans is a fiber artist, educator, and arts advocate based in Bloomington, IN. She primarily works with experimental quilts and soft sculpture using the motion and construction of textiles to display gestures of emotional effort. She is also a co-founder of the...
Beatriz is a visual artist whose work experiments with the conceptual use of Papel Picado, a Mexican Folk Art, transforming layers of intricate cut paper into murals and and with the manipulation of paper she creates wearable paper sculptures. Vasquez received her...
The Indiana University Marching Hundred Drumline functions as an integral part of the nationally renowned IU Marching Hundred. Expect a top-notch performance bridging beats from gown to town. Marching Hundred is led by drumline director Ben Handel.
Since 1974, Indiana University’s African American Dance Company (AADC) has shared movement traditions and diverse dance forms of the African diaspora and African American culture with audiences in Indiana and across the globe. Directed by Stafford C. Berry Jr., the...
Kittel & Co.’s virtuosic take on American string music bridges many worlds: classical and Americana, Celtic and bluegrass, folk and jazz. American violinist, fiddler, and composer Jeremy Kittel is fluent in multiple musical realms and composes original music that...
The Yandong Grand Singers perform in a unique polyphonic acappella vocal style that has been designated a masterpiece of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. The Dong people, who don’t have a written language of their own, transmit much of their...