Orkesta Mendoza delivers mambo and cumbia – big time. Nogales-born Sergio Mendoza partners with vocalist Salvador Duran to lead a tight group of musicians in a set that will be heaven for dancers. Expect to find classic instrumentation, including vihuela (mariachi...
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The Revelers
The Revelers have serious cred on the Louisiana music scene – they are founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and the Pine Leaf Boys, two groups at the forefront of Louisiana’s cultural renaissance. The Revelers push beyond the traditional and serve up a musical...
Söndörgő
Söndörgő isn’t your average Balkan group. Instead of using brass or fiddles, this Hungarian ensemble is a tamburitza band: it’s built around the tambura, a small string instrument reminiscent of the mandolin. Add wind instruments and accordion, and you have the...
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line
* 2014 Lotus Dickey Artist * This high-energy Nashville-based quintet performs Struthers’ original story-songs with tight three-part harmonies, fiddle, claw-hammer banjo, acoustic guitar, bass, and drums. Struthers led her band to a blue ribbon at the 2010 Telluride...
Tsuumi Sound System
Fans of the Finnish band Frigg will see some familiar faces in the line-up for the Tsuumi Sound System. TSS begins with Nordic string traditions and adds brass, percussion, and keyboards to create a fuller, even more powerful sound: driving Finnish fiddle music with a...
Van-Anh Vanessa Vo
Van-Anh Vanessa Vo is an Emmy Award–winning master of the 16-string đan tránh zither and other instruments unique to Vietnamese culture. From the Vietnamese National Music Theatre in Hanoi, to Carnegie Hall in New York City, she has captivated audiences with playing...
Derek Gripper
Derek Gripper has earned worldwide acclaim for interpreting complex, beautiful kora compositions on the classical guitar; he has performed works by Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko, Ali Farka Touré, and others. Always on the move to develop new directions for the...
Kaia
* Kat Domingo Memorial Artist * Kaia performs jazz, spirituals, original compositions, improvisations, and songs from many cultural traditions around the globe. From haunting ballads to bawdy drinking songs, this Bloomington-based vocal ensemble explores aspects of...
FullSet
FullSet is Michael Harrison (fiddle), Martino Vacca (uillean pipes), Janine Redmond (button accordion), Eamonn Moloney (bodhrán), Andy Meaney (guitar), and Katie Else (vocals). The centuries-long tradition of Irish music is alive and well in this young Limerick-based...
Las Cafeteras
Formed in East Los Angeles to document neighborhood history through music, Las Cafeteras has been praised as a “uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia, and rock” by the LA Times. With the son jarocho tradition of Veracruz at its core – think...