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Lotus Live – WFHB
by Lotus Live – WFHB
Bloomington Community Radio
Episodes
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LOTUS LIVE: Ruth Theodore
British singer-songwriter Ruth Theodore stopped by the Firehouse on October 3rd for a special Lotus Live session during the 2026 Lotus World Music & Arts Festival. Theodore isn’t your typical folk singer. Her music mixes intricate guitar work, sharp, unpredictable lyrics, and a healthy dose of…
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LOTUS LIVE: Amir ElSaffar
We were thrilled to welcome Amir ElSaffar to the Firehouse on October 3rd for a special Lotus Live session during the 2026 Lotus World Music & Arts Festival. The Iraqi-American trumpeter, composer, and vocalist is known for bringing together jazz and traditional Iraqi maqam music. After winning a...
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LOTUS LIVE: Zar Electrik
Zar Electrik brought their boundary-pushing sound to WFHB for a special Lotus Live Session on September 26, 2025. With members hailing from France and Morocco, the trio fuses North African and Sub-Saharan traditions with electronic textures, creating an intercontinental groove that blurs the…
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LOTUS LIVE: Puuluup
Estonian duo Puuluup joined WFHB for a special Lotus Live Session on September 26, 2025. With their playful, genre-defying approach, Puuluup reimagines the ancient Talharpa (a traditional bowed lyre) by blending it with modern loops, electronics, and quirky humor. The result is music that’s…
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2023 WFHB Lotus Live – Madalitso Band
On September 30, 2023, Madalitso Band joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of their Lotus Festival performance. Host: Adriane Pontecorvo Engineers: Alyssa Gray and Chama Henry Producer: Christine Brackenhoff Post-Production Engineer: Chama Henry
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2023 WFHB Lotus Live – Larry & Joe
On September 30, 2023, Larry & Joe joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of their Lotus Festival performance. Host: Adriane Pontecorvo Engineers: Alyssa Gray and Chama Henry Producer: Christine Brackenhoff Post-Production Engineer: Chama Henry
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2023 WFHB Lotus Live – Kavita Shah
On September 29, 2023, Kavita Shah joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of her Lotus Festival performance. Host: Adriane Pontecorvo Engineer: Jim Lang Producer: Christine Brackenhoff
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2022 WFHB Lotus Live – Vân-Ánh Võ
On September 24th, 2022, Vân-Ánh Võ joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of that evening’s Lotus Festival performance. We learned more about her various instruments and inspiration behind her compositions. Host: Christine Brackenhoff Co-producer: Adriane Pontecorvo...
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2022 WFHB Lotus Live – Seffarine
On September 24th, 2022, Seffarine joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of that evening’s Lotus Festival performance. We discussed the band’s formation and their various musical influences. Host: Christine Brackenhoff Co-producer: Adriane Pontecorvo Engineers…
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2021 WFHB Lotus Live – Martha Redbone Roots Project
On Friday, September 24th (2021), Martha Redbone Roots Project joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of that evening’s Lotus Festival performance. Host: Christine Brackenhoff Engineer: Jim Lang
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2021 WFHB Lotus Live – Saraswathi
On Friday, September 24th (2021), Saraswathi joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of that evening’s Lotus Festival performance. Host: Jennifer Brooks Engineers: Jim Lang and Jeffrey Morris
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2021 WFHB Lotus Live – Yacouba Sissoko and Moussa Diabate
On Saturday, September 25th, Yacouba Sissoko and Moussa Diabate joined us at the station for a live performance and interview ahead of that evening’s Lotus Festival performance. Host: Adriane Pontecorvo Engineer: Jim Lang
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WFHB 2020 Lotus Artist Feature: Nohe & Sus Santos
Nohe & Sus Santos (Nohe and Her Saints) is a four-piece band replete with the musical vibes of Central and North America. Incorporating Alt-Rock en Espanol and quirky Cumbia, Nohe & Sus Santos deliver a Latinx vibe full of soul, passion, and a good dose of attitude, accentuated by electric…
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WFHB 2020 Lotus Artist Feature: The Friel Sisters
The Friel Sisters (Anna, Sheila, and Clare Friel) are young traditional musicians born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland – with their family roots firmly entrenched in the Donegal Gaeltacht in North West Ireland. They play a mixture of music interspersed with songs in English and Irish, many…
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WFHB 2020 Lotus Artist Feature: Tuuletar
Fierce energy, beatbox rhythms, and other-worldly harmonies: TUULETAR (Goddess of The Wind in Finnish mythology) is taking Finnish music abroad with a novel approach. The band’s virtuoso singers create a sonic landscape, where beatbox rhythms meet global influences and Finnish poetry tradition....
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WFHB 2020 Lotus Artist Feature: Fanfara Station
Fanfara Station is a celebration with a brass band, an entire North African rhythm section, and contemporary electro Dance beats. It’s a dance party created live by only three musicians thanks to the use of loop stations for live over-dubbing. Fanfara Station’s stage is filled with instruments:...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Lula Wiles
Long before they were a band, the members of Lula Wiles sang folk songs and traded fiddle tunes at camp in Maine. The trio, all of whom grew up in rural Maine, carry those lessons of community and the meaning of shared art with them as they create music that explores cultural virtues, soothes...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Les Filles De Illighadad
Les Filles are from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, in the scrubland deserts at the Sahara’s edge. They draw on the traditional tende music of rural Niger that inspired Tuareg blues. The sparse music, which is built from a few elements (vocals, handclaps, percussion), is also...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Steve Riley Trio
The Steve Riley Trio plays Cajun French music born in the bayous of Southwest Louisiana: acappella ballads; Cajun blues; hot two-steps that transform the festival tent into a Louisiana dance floor. Steve Riley is a master of the Cajun accordion and his bandmembers are: Kevin Wimmer on fiddle and...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Sofia Viola and Dat Garcia
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...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Frontera Bugalú
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...
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – One For The Foxes
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...
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WFHB Lotus Live – Afrotronix
Electronic 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.…
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2019 WFHB Lotus Live – Balla Kouyate
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...
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Lotus Live – Alash – 3/20/19
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…
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Lotus Live – Adilei – 4/9/19
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…
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Socalled – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Mamadou Kelly – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Jarlath Henderson – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Hoven Droven – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Making Movies – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Anandi Bhattacharya Trio – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Guilhem Desq – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
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...
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Sam Amidon – Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Friday, September 28, 2018 Sam Amidon digs through sounds and stories of late 19th and early 20th century American musical culture (ballads, hymns, work songs), using them as points of departure for his own melodic explorations. A singer and…
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Jupiter & Okwess Lotus Live on WFHB 2018
First broadcast live over WFHB from Blockhouse Studios on Friday, September 28, 2018 Front man Jupiter Bokondji and the band Okwess hail from Kinshasa, in Congo. Their exhilarating version of soukous is jet-fueled – Congolese rhumba with healthy doses of funk, soul, and rock. Jupiter & Okwess...
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Meklit – WFHB Interview Lotus 2017
WFHB’s Adriane Pontecorvo checks in with Meklit Hadero in advance of her 2017 Lotus Festival performances. Lotus Festival Performances: Friday, September 29 @ 7:15pm Buskirk-Chumley Theater Saturday, September 30 @ 9:00pm Picture Gallery/Old National Bank Tent Interview Host: Adriane Pontecorvo...
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Making Movies – WFHB Interview Lotus 2017
WFHB’s Adriane Pontecorvo checks in with Making Movies front-man Enrique Chi in advance of their 2017 Lotus Festival performances. Lotus 2017 Performances – Ivy Tech Community College Tent on Fourth Street (right in front of WFHB). Friday, September 29 @ 9:00pm Saturday, September 20 @ 7:15pm...
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Lotus Live – Giri and Uma Peters
Brother and sister bluegrass prodigies Giri and Uma Peters joined us on September 30th for a Lotus Live session at Blockhouse Studios. Songs performed: 1. How to Help the World 2. Zoey’s Reel 3. Sitting on Top of the World Interview Host: Adriane Pontecorvo Live Radio Mix: Andy Beargie Session...
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Lotus Live 2017 – Kaia Kater
Kaia Kater is part of the new generation of American roots musicians, with an original repertoire that weaves together Appalachian stories, personal narratives of the digital age, and hard-hitting songs that touch on modern issues like Black Lives Matter. Kaia Kater joined us on September 30th…
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Lotus Live – The Outside Track
Through a partnership with Lotus World Music and Arts, we are able to bring selected Lotus artists from all over the world and put them on your FM radio dial. On September 30th, The Outside Track took part in our Lotus Live sessions. They are a five member group that plays a variety of Celtic …
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Lotus Live – Trio da Kali
Through a partnership with Lotus World Music and Arts, we are able to bring selected Lotus artists from all over the world and put them on your FM radio dial. Trio da Kali visited us for an interview and performance of their music on September 29th. Broadcast Live From Blockhouse Studios Photo…
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Lotus Live – Lo ‘Jo
Through a partnership with Lotus World Music and Arts, we are able to bring selected Lotus artists from all over the world and put them on your FM radio dial. The six part group, Lo ‘Jo, participated in our Lotus Live sessions on September 29th to share their music and story. Broadcast Live From...
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Lotus Live – Sahba & Naghmeh
Through a partnership with Lotus World Music and Arts, we are able to bring selected Lotus artists from all over the world and put them on your FM radio dial. On September 29th, Sahba and Naghmeh took part in our Lotus Live sessions by playing their music and interviewing with us. In their…
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Lotus Live: Rahim Alhaj
WFHB Lotus Live Session March 20, 2017 Iraqi oud musician and composer Rahim AlHaj combines traditional Iraqi maqams with contemporary styling and influence. Virtuosically playing on an instrument that spans 5,000 years, Rahim’s music represents a unique voice that speaks passionately to...
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Lotus Live on WFHB: Wu Man
Recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer giving her lute-like instrument—which has a history of over 2,000 years in China—a new role in both traditional and contemporary music.…
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Anna & Elizabeth: WFHB Lotus Live from Blockhouse Studios September 17, 2016
Multi-instrumentalist Anna Roberts-Gevalt and ballad-singer Elizabeth LaPrelle honor Appalachian artistry with a repertoire collected from archives, elder musicians, and their contemporaries among the old-time renaissance in the U.S. In haunting ballads, lilting lullabies, and songs of grace and...
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Femina: WFHB Lotus Live from Blockhouse Studios September 16, 2016
This trio of Patagonian women write and sing diverse songs in exquisite harmony to deliver an unforgettable theatrical stage performance. Hailing from the tiny mountain town of San Martin de los Andes, Fémina is made up of two sisters and their best childhood friend: Sofia “Toti” Trucco (vocals,...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker : WFHB Lotus Live from Blockhouse Studios September 16, 2016
Double BBC Folk Award nominees Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker infuse ageless stories of love and loss with their exquisite command of many instruments. Josienne was born in Sussex and Ben, in Evesham; it was after studying in London, and utterly by chance, that they met in July 2009. Together…
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Rocky Dawuni: WFHB Lotus Live from Blockhouse Studios September 16, 2016
The Afro Roots sound of Ghanaian musician and social activist Rocky Dawuni has been influenced by the soulful music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and the positive messages and deep grooves of Bob Marley. Rocky’s songs straddle musical boundaries between Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S.…
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Baladino: WFHB Lotus Live from Blockhouse Studios September 15, 2016
The Israeli band Baladino offers fresh, authentic interpretations of unique Mediterranean music and tradition rooted in Ladino culture, singing in a Spanish-Jewish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews. Singer Yael Badah. Badah’s collection of Ladino songs, many of which belonged to her ancestors…
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