I’m not sure if they’ve posted them on the Lotus Festival website yet (although if they haven’t, they must be having technical difficulties there because it’s past the deadline they said at the concert), but here’s a tentative list of the artists appearing this October in Bloomington.
detektivbyrån ~ analogue electronic waltz from Sweden
Sogbety Diomande’s West African Drum and Dance Company ~ Cote d’Ivoire (sorry, I can’t figure out how to make the little angle over the o)
Etran Finatawa ~ African tribal fusion music from Niger
Etugen Ensemble ~ Mongolian folk music
Julie Fowlis ~ Scottish Gaelic folk song
Frigg ~ String folk music from Norway & Finland
Bill Harney & Paul Taylor ~ Australian storytelling and didjeridoo
Gaida Hinnawi ~ Arabic song from Syria
Little Cow ~ Ska/rock/funk/Gypsy fusion from Hungary
Lo Cor de la Plana ~ Polyphonic song from Occitan/southern France
March Fourth Marching Band ~ Absolute crowd favorite marching band (I describe them as “Drum Corps Without Adult Supervision”!)
La Musgaña ~ Traditional music of Central Spain
Pistolera ~ Latin Alt-Folklorico
Reelroad ~ Modern Russian folk music
Son de Madera ~ Traditional music & dance from Veracruz
Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko: Africa to Appalachia ~ Appalachia/Mali fusion
Vieux Farka Touré ~ Desert blues from Mali
Waltz With Me: Annbjørg Lien, Bruce Molsky, Christine Hanson, Mats Eden ~ International folk music string quartet
The Wilders ~ Old-time country (but I think they’re much more fun than this description, myself.)
And as they say … “With more surprises to come!” The LotusFest website is supposed to have updates throughout the summer, and they note that the artist roster is subject to change.

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