2016 Blossoms

Sylvester Makobi

Sylvester Makobi

Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar School Day featured performer, Friday, April 1 Sylvester Makobi has performed with the Kenyan Boys Choir for many years, and sang with them at President Obama’s first inauguration. He recorded as a soloist in three of the choir’s albums,...

Kuniko Yamamoto

Kuniko Yamamoto

Lotus Blossoms Residency:  April 4-8, 2016 Kuniko Yamamoto enchants audiences of every age with dramatic storytelling using myths and fables from ancient and modern Japan, spiced with social revelations to educate and amuse. Kuniko uses traditional Japanese music,...

Kim & Reggie Harris

Kim & Reggie Harris

Lotus Blossoms Residency:  March 21-24, 2016 Consummate musicians and storytellers, Kim & Reggie Harris are a mini festival of diversity. Combining traditional African-American spirituals and freedom songs with original folk, they sing of life, love, the quest for...

Seán Cleland & Jackie Moran

Seán Cleland & Jackie Moran

Lotus Blossoms Residency:  March 21-25, 2016 Seán Cleland is an Irish fiddle player, music teacher, producer, and executive director of the Irish Music School of Chicago.  Seán grew up on the North side of Chicago in an Irish-American household.  Both of Seán's...