Artists

(Para español, vaya abajo) Be part of bringing Brazil to Bloomington!  An accomplished percussionist, teacher, and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Colleen Haas specializes in Brazilian music and is the lead artist for this year’s Lotus Summer Visual Arts Outreach program,...

(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...

Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a 12-member-plusguerilla-punk-klezmer band that delivers cathartic and exhilarating performances. On stage – or on Kirkwood – the Orkestra is a movable street scene. They bring the party with big brass, strings, drums, dance, and vocals.

Featuring Brittany Haas (fiddle), Paul Kowert (bass), Jordan Tice (guitar), and Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Hawktail has played with bands like Crooked Still, Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, the Prairie Home Companion, among others…

(Para español, vaya abajo) 2018 Kat Domingo Memorial Artist* Aynur is the voice of a culture: a Turkish-born Kurd, she sings Kurdish songs steeped in centuries of tradition and yet brings her own contemporary style to a folkloric repertoire. Aynur’s music focuses on...

(Para español, vaya abajo) Front man Jupiter Bokondji and the band Okwess hail from Kinshasa, in Congo. Their version of the exhilarating soukous that are jet-fueled Congolese versions of rumba includes healthy doses of funk, soul, and even rock. Jupiter & Okwess...