Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:08 — 32.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLotus 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. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:53 — 16.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLotus 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. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:08 — 14.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreElectronic music meets Afrobeat. Born in Chad but now based in Montreal, Afrotronix creates what he calls “an electronic futurist package” by drawing on and sampling from (for example) Mandinka music of West Africa, Saharan Tuareg blues, Senegalese rumba, Chadian sai, dubstep, EDM, and reggae. And he …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:08 — 33.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLotus 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. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:38 — 51.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreTuvan 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:20 — 48.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEnsemble 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. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:20 — 48.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:56 — 36.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:25 — 46.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:26 — 44.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFirst 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 …
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