Lotus Live

Lotus World Music and Arts Foundation and WFHB Community Radio have once again partnered to bring the Lotus Festival experience to the airwaves of South Central Indiana! Each Lotus Live session features a different Lotus festival artist for an exclusive performance and interview live from Blockhouse Studios. This session is broadcast live on 91.3 FM, 98.1 Bloomington, 100.7 Nashville, 106.3 …

Tuvan folk band Alash visited the WFHB studios on March 20, 2019 for a Lotus Live Session while they were in Bloomington for Lotus Blossoms performances and workshops. WFHB host Allison Strang digs into the ancient roots of the Alash sound. Songs Performed: 1. Songbirds of Summer 2. Good Horses 3. In a Foreign Land 4. The Black Crane Credits: …

Ensemble Adilei performs traditional Georgian polyphonic songs and chants. Gurian music is sometimes compared to jazz, because of the emphasis on improvisation, and non-parallel movement in all the voice parts. Gurian song is also characterized by k’rimanch’uli , a yodeling technique often present in the upper voice. The ensemble has toured in a number of European countries, and participated in …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Saturday, September 29, 2018 Genre-defying maestro Josh “Socalled” Dolgin is a musician, producer, composer, arranger, magician, filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Montreal. Socalled grew up taking piano lessons and loving funk and hip hop; when he first heard klezmer music on an old Yiddish record, he was fascinated by …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Thursday, September 27, 2018 Mamadou Kelly knows Malian music inside and out, thanks to his origins in Mali’s Niger River Delta – and years spent playing with legends like Ali Farka Toure and Afel Bocoum. A brilliant guitarist and vocalist steeped in the West African “desert blues,” Mamadou carves out rhythmic, …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Saturday, September 29, 2018 Hailing from County Armagh, Ireland, Jarlath Henderson is the first Irish solo artist to win the BBC Young Folk Musician of the Year Award. He is also a masterful balladeer, three times All-­­Ireland Champion uilleann piper, and a versatile multi-instrumentalist (whistle, flute, cittern) He “revives traditional songs …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Thursday, September 27, 2018 Trad meets metal in the take-no-prisoners folk thrash of Hoven Droven. With a distinctive mix of traditional Swedish folk tunes and wall-of-sound percussion, brass, and guitars, they’ve carved their own niche in the Scandinavian folk scene. 메이저놀이터 Interview Host: Adriane Pontecorrvo Producer/Director: Jim Manion Assistant Producers: Adriane …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Friday, September 29, 2018 Making Movies blends pulsing Afro-Latino rhythms, psychedelic jams and rock ’n’ roll swagger into powerful live performances, full of theatrics and cathartic climaxes. The foursome showcases their Latin American roots, with frontman Enrique Chi incorporating traditional instruments like the Panamanian mejorana alongside electric guitar, or the Chaurand …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Friday, September 28, 2018 Anandi grew up among music and musicians: her father is slide guitar master Debashish Bhattacharya, and she inherited her golden voice from her grandmother. Her singing is a mixed style of Agra, Patiala, and Maihar gharanas (Indian singing styles), and she has also delved into Bollywood music …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Saturday, September 29, 2018 Nicknamed the “Hendrix of Hurdy-Gurdy,” Guilhem Desq breathes new life and innovation into this old-world instrument – a deep-barreled, lute-shaped string instrument whose sound is generated by a the turning of a crank. Desq electrifies this originally acoustic instrument and plays a wide variety of genres on …