Fiddle River Stringband delights audiences with high energy traditional dance music, original old-time songs, flatfooting, and percussive dance. The fiddle-driven quartet features Ohio’s Bob Lucas and Chris Westhoff (of Mad River Theater Works) and Bloomington’s...
The musicians and dancers of Fendika come from Addis Ababa and draw deeply from the well of Ethiopia’s azmari music, a tradition developed by itinerant bards. The seven-member group includes two dancers, two singers, and instrumentalists who play kebero drums, masenko...
This trio of Patagonian women write and sing diverse songs in exquisite harmony to deliver an unforgettable theatrical stage performance. Hailing from the tiny mountain town of San Martin de los Andes, Fémina is made up of two sisters and their best childhood friend:...
Founded in 2004, the seven-members of the brass ensemble Federspiel (“feather game”) were students at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. With a sound that takes listeners on an eclectic musical journey through folk, world, traditional, and even pop,...
Clint Bear started building acoustic guitars in 2001 after almost 35 years of playing, repairing and tinkering with electric and acoustic guitars. His lutherie skills evolved from woodworking skills honed during several decades in homebuilding, remodeling, and cabinet...
Bruce Taggart is a mandolin builder, fiddle builder, banjo neck maker, and an instrument repairman. “I started as a musician interested in banjo but couldn’t afford a real fancy instrument,” he recalls, “so I built one. The Earl Scruggs book How to Play Bluegrass...
Bill Berg has been making musical instruments for over thirty years. He enjoys working in his Nashville shop, Mountain Made Music, where he specializes in instruments mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, bowed psalteries, lap harps, and various other harp-like...
The Israeli band Baladino offers fresh, authentic interpretations of unique Mediterranean music and tradition rooted in Ladino culture, singing in a Spanish-Jewish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews. Conceived by wind instrumentalist Yonnie Dror and string player Thomas...
Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim grew up in a small southern Israeli village near the Egyptian border. The family’s Yemeni Jewish roots -- and their love of the Yemenite language, an old and nearly extinct dialect of Arabic spoken by Yemeni Jews -- inspired the Haim...
The Festival Arts Village on E. 6th Street is free and open to the public from 6:00-10:00pm on Friday and Saturday evenings during the Festival. Plus, during the first venue break both evenings (8:30pm), we'll be featuring live demonstrations and bite-sized...