The 24th Lotus World Music & Arts Festival has revealed the 2017 program. The festival will take place September 28 – October 1, 2017 in Downtown Bloomington, Indiana (USA).
2017 Program
Trio de Kali
Soulful Mandé griot traditions, Mali
Alash
Traditional Tuvan throat-singing, Tuva (Russia)
Giri & Uni Peters
Brother-sister bluegrass duo, USA
Ladama
Pan-American music & cultural collaboration Venezuela-Colombia-Brazil-USA
Sahba Motallebi & Naghmeh Farahmand
Iranian String & Percussion, Iran
De Temps Antan
Traditional Québécois, French Canadian
Meklit
Stylish Ethio-jazz, Ethiopia
Iberi
Traditional Georgian choral polyphony, Republic of Georgia
Rachel Sermanni
Scottish Singer-Songwriter, Scotland
Irene Atienza & Douglas Lora
Spanish & Brazilian vocals and guitar, Brazil
Lo’Jo: Fonetiq
North African, Gypsy, and French folk fusion, France
Isabel Berglund
Collaborative textile art installations, Denmark
The Outside Track
Scots, Irish, & Cape Breton folk fusion, Ireland
Väsen
Modern Swedish string music, Sweden
Alex Cuba
Cuban pop Singer-Songwriter, Canada Cuba
Kaia Kater
Appalachian African-American, Canada
Betsayda Machado y La Parranda el Clavo
Afro-Venezuelan parranda traditions, Venezuela
Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna
Chilean singer-songwriter, Chile
Sam Bartlett
Cranky Storyteller, USA (Lotus Dickey Artist)
More at www.lotusfest.org
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