Lotus Festival offers lineup preview

Celebrating 20 years of arts and culture this year, the annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival recently announced a sneak peek lineup of artists.

The festival will take place Sept. 25-29.

A confirmed list of artists and musicians thus far is included below.

For more updated information, visit lotusfest.org.

Frigg (Finland)
Scandinavian fiddle
Thursday, Sept. 26 and Friday, Sept. 27

Funkadesi (U.S.)
Multicultural funk
Thursday, Sept. 26 and Friday, Sept. 27

Roberto Fonseca (Cuba)
Cuban jazz piano
Friday, Sept. 27

Srinivas Krishnan, Abbos Kosimov, Homayun Sakhi (India/Uzbekistan/Afghanistan)
Global rhythms
Friday, Sept. 27

Sonia M’barek (Tunisia)
Tunisian maluf
Friday, Sept. 27

Arga Bileg (Mongolia)
Folk
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

DakhaBrakha (Ukraine)
Ukrainian “ethnic chaos”
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

David Wax Museum (U.S.)
Folk and roots
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Debo Band (Ethiopia/U.S.)
Ethiopian soul and funk
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

De Temps Antan (Quebec)
Quebecois traditional
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Nomadic Massive (Canada)
Multi-culti hip-hop
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

The Once (Newfoundland)
Traditional and original songs
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Pacific Curls (South Pacific)
Roots and song
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Christine Salem (Reunion Island)
Percussion and song
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Vasen (Sweden)
Modern Swedish string music
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Volosi (Poland)
Modern Polish folk music
Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28

Kardemimmit (Finland)
Finnish kantele and song
Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29

Wamjad, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan
Indian classical music
Saturday, Sept. 28

Japonize Elephants (U.S.)
Old-time Eastern honk orchestra
Saturday, Sept. 28

Lily & Madeleine (U.S.)
Singer-songwriters
Saturday, Sept. 28

Red Baraat (India/U.S.)
Bhangra funk and brass
Saturday, Sept. 28

Barbara Furtuna (Corsica)
A cappella
Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29

—Amanda Jacobson