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 drum, and a long-necked, banjo-like, one-stringed instrument called a babatone. The pair played...
Venezuela meets Appalachia Larry & Joe were destined to make music together. Larry Bellorín, a legend of Llanera music, hails from Monagas, Venezuela. Joe Troop is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and Old-Time musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum...
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 with rap and beatboxing. In these musical traditions, men usually play percussion such as...
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 Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates...
Singer & songwriter / US Krista Detor is a songwriter’s songwriter, a poet and storyteller whose songs can swing from wry humor to piercing tenderness in a heartbeat. She’s a performer, teacher, and creative collaborator with a long list of credits, including:...
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 of Celtic, Breton, and American musical traditions. Eric studied jazz and bluegrass mandolin at the...
Dance from the African Diaspora / US Founded in 1974, Indiana University’s African American Dance Company brings Black dance to center stage — sharing movement traditions and diverse dance formsof the African diaspora and African American culture. The company’s...
Blues / US Gordon Bonham’s serious, soulful blues are a mix of styles — from the Mississippi Delta to the back alleys of Chicago, from big Texas shuffles to jumpin’ West Coast swing. This Indiana bluesman has played with Yank Rachell, Bo Diddley, Gary Primich, Jimmy...
Irish & Old-Time traditional music / US / Lotus Dickey Artist Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for decades of music making, have spent almost 20 years in a joyful musical collaboration. Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and...
Old-Time Americana / US / Lotus Dickey Artist Eric & Suzy are devoted to the pursuit of weird and obscure old-time American music – warped fiddle tunes in odd tunings, cinematic ballads, country blues songs that contain mysterious metaphors, early Cajun music with...