Ensemble Adilei performs traditional Georgian polyphonic songs and chants. After informally singing together for several years, the members officially formed the ensemble in 2012. Adilei’s main passion lies in the songs from the province of Guria in Western Georgia...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Rio Mira -- named for the river that separates Ecuador and Colombia -- brings together marimba masters Esteban Copete and Larry Preciado with Ecuadorian singer Karla Kanora and an ensemble of Afro-Latino folkloric musicians from the...
(Para español, vaya abajo) The five-member ensemble Manhu comes to Lotus from the Sani region of the Stone Forest in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. Their music expresses the unique culture of the Yi people, an ethnic minority based in this part of China. The...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Ancient musical traditions of China and Syria come together in the collaboration of Gao Hong and Issam Rafea. Gao is a master of the pipa, the Chinese four-stringed lute; Rafea is a master of the oud, or Arabic lute. Both are award-winning...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Mamadou Kelly knows Malian music inside and out, thanks to his origins in Mali’s Niger River Delta – and years spent playing with legends like Ali Farka Toure and Afel Bocoum. A brilliant guitarist and vocalist steeped in the West African...
(Para español, vaya abajo) The band Delgres' name comes from Louis Delgrès, a military officer of African descent who died in Guadeloupe in 1802, fighting Napoleon’s reinstatement of slavery. That powerful history may be the undercurrent of the band’s funky,...
(Para español, vaya abajo) 2018 Lotus Dickey Artist* Molsky's Mountain Drifters are exploring a new sound within traditional Americana. The band features Grammy-nominated Bruce Molsky, a revered Old-Time music ambassador and Berklee College of Music Visiting Scholar,...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Sam Amidon digs through sounds and stories of late 19th- and early twentieth-century American musical culture (ballads, hymns, work songs) and uses them as points of departure for his own melodic explorations. A singer and a...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Lo Còr de la Plana matches six male a cappella voices with the stomping, clapping beat of hand drums. Its Mediterranean roots include Arabic and African influences and Gregorian chant. Singing in the ancient language Occitan, the group...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Orquesta el Macabeo think of themselves as rockeros con guille de salseros – rockers posing as a salsa band. Bent on shaking up the traditions of Puerto Rican salsa pioneers who have preceded them, this 11-member ensemble adds punk, ska, and...