Lotus Wight

Lotus Wight is a solo performer, vocal stylist, and scholar of antiquity. Wight performs with astonishing virtuosity on banjo, guitar, jaw harp and instruments of his own invention including the contrabass harmoniphoneum. Lotus has performed in Copenhagen, The Shetland Islands, Istanbul and Guelph, Ontario.

In the decades that book-ended the turn of the millennium, young Lotus worked as a member of an itinerant square dance band, garnering invaluable experience touring the Eastern and Southern United States; now he would play, learn and perform with all manner of folk musicians in the styles over which he had obsessed as a child. Wight was at home in a cohort of fiddlers, banjo players, singers, dance callers, folk artists, longshoremen, riverboat captains, blacksmiths, basket-weavers and instrument makers.

Lotus is known for his skill as a workshop presenter, having taught at Augusta Heritage Centre in Elkins West Virginia, Algoma Trad Camp, and Jenny Whiteley's Old School Bluegrass Camp.

Wight's workshops in hambone body percussion and jaw-harp have provided education and delighted audiences of all ages, teaching collaborative music skills and rhythm to school children and music students and corporate groups around the world.