(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...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Nicknamed the “Hendrix of Hurdy-Gurdy,” Guilhem Desq breathes new life and innovation into this old-world instrument – a deep-barreled, lute-shaped string instrument whose sound is generated by a the turning of a crank. Desq electrifies this...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Kaumakaiwa grew up on the slopes of the volcano Mauna Kea (which she regards as a an ancestor), and its primordial power was a daily influence. Her tour de force performances offer a glimpse of Hawaiian cultural practices that have been...
(Para español, vaya abajo) James Hill grew up playing folk, jazz, and blues on his ukulele; Anne Janelle played only classical music on her cello. But the duo’s differences are their greatest performance assets. The uke is high, the cello is low; the uke plays short...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Genre-defying maestro Josh “Socalled” Dolgin is a musician, producer, composer, arranger, magician, filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Montreal. Socalled grew up taking piano lessons and loving funk and hip hop; when he...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Hailing from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, Jarlath Henderson is the first Irish solo artist to win the BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award. He is also a masterful balladeer, three times All-Ireland Champion uilleann piper, and a...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Raye Zaragoza is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer whose multinational heritage (Native American (O'odham), Mexican, Taiwanese and Japanese) deeply informs her music. This perspective can be heard in her independently...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Beyond the horizon of English traditional folk music you’ll find Spiro. The band’s raw, punk-infused take on folk and string music is propelled by the fierce and joyous interplay of violinist and composer Jane Harbour, mandolinist Alex Vann,...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Trad meets metal in the take-no-prisoners folk thrash of Hoven Droven. These Scandinavian folk-rockers have been on the Lotus wishlist forever – it’s perfect that they finally make it to Bloomington in our 25th year. With a distinctive mix...