Artists

Ayaan Ali Bangash grew up learning the intricacies of the sarod – the four-stringed lute of classical Indian music.  He is the younger son of sarod master Amjad Ali Bangash (Amjad Ali Khan) and the seventh generation of a musical lineage known as the Senia Bangash...

*2016 LOTUS DICKEY ARTIST* Multi-instrumentalist Anna Roberts-Gevalt and ballad-singer Elizabeth LaPrelle honor Appalachian artistry with a repertoire collected from archives, elder musicians, and their contemporaries among the old-time renaissance in the U.S. In...

*2016 KAT DOMINGO MEMORIAL ARTIST* The 10 women and men of Anda Union express the ancient musical culture of Inner Mongolia’s grasslands, a culture passed from generation to generation through stories, music, and songs. The ensemble plays an array of traditional...

Altan emerged from the creative spontaneity of jam sessions in kitchens and pubs in their hometown of Donegal.  For more than three decades, the band has brought the living legacy of Irish traditional music to audiences around the world. Altan has always been a band...

Dubbed by Alsarah as “east African retro pop,” Alsarah & The Nubatones blend 1960s and 70s Ethiopian music with Arabic and North African influences to create a sound with soaring vocal melodies, eastern instruments, and pentatonic arrangements.  A Sudanese born...

With a fresh, rich voice and a tight all-Cuban acoustic band, Adonis Puentes is earning a place in the list of great soneros – bandleader/singers whose vocal improvisations are the hallmarks of a Cuban son. Although he now lives in Canada, Puentes comments, “I feel...

Ancestors of Sara Pajunen and Teija Niku lived within hours of each other in western Finland – speaking the same language, playing the same music, living the same culture. In the late 19th-century, Pajunen’s ancestors emigrated to northern Minnesota; Niku’s family...