Artists

Cape Verdean / US Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, researcher, and educator deeply engaged with the jazz tradition. A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates...

Singer & songwriter / US Krista Detor is a songwriter’s songwriter, a poet and storyteller whose songs can swing from wry humor to piercing tenderness in a heartbeat. She’s a performer, teacher, and creative collaborator with a long list of credits, including:...

Celtic roots music/US Kalos is Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson, and Jeremiah McLane, masters of tradition who explore both the dark corners and the joyful exuberance of Celtic, Breton, and American musical traditions. Eric studied jazz and bluegrass mandolin at the...

Dance from the African Diaspora / US Founded in 1974, Indiana University’s African American Dance Company brings Black dance to center stage — sharing movement traditions and diverse dance formsof the African diaspora and African American culture. The company’s...

Blues / US Gordon Bonham’s serious, soulful blues are a mix of styles — from the Mississippi Delta to the back alleys of Chicago, from big Texas shuffles to jumpin’ West Coast swing. This Indiana bluesman has played with Yank Rachell, Bo Diddley, Gary Primich, Jimmy...

Irish & Old-Time traditional music / US / Lotus Dickey Artist Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, each well-known and loved for decades of music making, have spent almost 20 years in a joyful musical collaboration. Cindy is a superb singer, guitarist, songwriter, and...

Old-Time Americana / US / Lotus Dickey Artist Eric & Suzy are devoted to the pursuit of weird and obscure old-time American music – warped fiddle tunes in odd tunings, cinematic ballads, country blues songs that contain mysterious metaphors, early Cajun music with...

Argentina / USA Eleanor Dubinsky (cello, vocals) and Darío Acosta Teich (guitar) take audiences on a trip around the world with multilingual original songs and fresh interpretations of jazz and beloved classics in Spanish, French, Portuguese. Their elegant...

African traditional music / Zimbabwe Dan Kusaya plays music from all over the world, but he is steeped in the traditional music of South Africa. Growing up in Zimbabwe, he learned to play mbira at the age of five, and soon after became a master on the marimba. For...