The first twenty years have been good to Lotus -- and we’re growing our endowment, to ensure that the Festival will be around for another 20 years. Donors like Paul Sturm are helping us realize that vision. “The best way I can feel fulfilled in my relationship with...
Members of Indiana University’s Ukrainian Club connected with the avant-garde ensemble DakhaBrakha on Lotus weekend, and Ethnomusicology grad student Shaun Williams had a chance to talk to the band about their music, their creative process, and their impressions of...
Indiana University's Mathers Museum of World Cultures was the very first Lotus venue: On a cool October afternoon in 1994, the festival began on the museum's front porch, with a set of folk music by Andrew Lazaro, a Puerto Rican doctoral student at the IU School of...
Percussionist Bernard Woma is a master of the Ghanaian gyil, or xylophone, which he has been playing since he was two years old. Founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana, he is a gifted and experienced teacher: from school programs in...
Wrap up your Lotus #21 with transcendent music from Mongolia and South Africa. Your 2014 Lotus Pin gets you in! Arga Bileg fuses jazz improvisation with Mongolian traditional music; Derek Gripper takes genres as diverse as African kora compositions and baroque violin...
With Arga Bileg and Derek Gripper Buskirk-Chumley Theater (114 E. Kirkwood) 3 – 5 pm The 2014 Lotus Pin gets you in ($5, available in advance at Bloomingfoods locations, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Box Office, Landlocked Music, at the Festival Store, and at the...
Dance and drumming of Cuba and Puerto Rico come to Lotus in the Park by way of Sancocho Music and Dance Collage. The group takes its name from a Latin American stew of meats, vegetables, and spices, and their workshop will introduce participants to signature “flavors”...
Radha Lakshmi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work draws on the women’s ritual and folkloric arts of her native Southern India, as well as other aboriginal traditions. She is an expert in the art of kolam, a traditional Indian form that incorporates mythology and...
Catherine MacLellan’s fine lyrics and pure vocals make her one of the finest young singer-songwriters on the North American roots scene. She follows in the footsteps of her father, Canadian music legend Gene MacLellan — her spare, haunting cover of his classic...
Mames Babegenush comes to Lotus from the vibrant cultural milieu of Copenhagen. Firmly rooted in klezmer, the six-member ensemble nonetheless crosses musical boundaries, blending this classic Jewish music with genres as diverse as tango, rock, cumbia, electronica, and...