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Movits! makes Lotus a party

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 11:03 p.m.

Movits!, a Swedish music group, took the stage at Lotus Music and Arts Festival on Saturday night.

Kids weave prank into Lotus in the Park project

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:59 p.m.

Lotus in the Park is a free portion of the annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. Located in the Waldron, Hill and Buskirk Park known as Third Street Park, this part of the festival offered Bloomington residents daytime concerts by artists featured in the weekend’s schedule.

Australian belles on stilts sway in Strange Fruit

By Nicole Montella · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:57 p.m.

When the beauty of a fairy tale met 14-foot-high flexible poles, Strange Fruit was the outcome.The women on stilts first appeared on campus Thursday outside the IU Art Museum and made three more appearances throughout Bloomington as part of the celebration for the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.

Mavis Staples sings from her soul

By Rachel Krasnow · Sunday, Sept. 25,2011 10:54 p.m.

In an all-black outfit, drop earrings and a black bob with a golden sheen, she walked on stage to an eruptive cheer of applause. The Buskirk-Chumley Theater’s sold-out crowd of mostly baby boomers stood in their seats, clapping and hooting. Mavis Staples, Grammy award-winning gospel singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, looked straight at the audience.