{"id":2130,"date":"1999-09-30T13:39:12","date_gmt":"1999-09-30T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?page_id=2130"},"modified":"2022-06-11T22:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T03:34:53","slug":"lotus-festival-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/lotus-festival-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Festival review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999-Cho-Poster-Europe-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999-Cho-Poster-Europe-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Whole Lotta <a href=\"http:\/\/lotusfest.org\/\">Lotus<\/a><\/h4>\n<h6><em>Bloomington Independent \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>September 30, 1999<\/h6>\n<p>First choice on Friday night was Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts.\u00a0 Truly enlightening in many ways, their performance fused ancient sacred Tibetan chant with cosmic embellishment from Tibbetts&#8217; guitar and Marc Anderson&#8217;s percussion, gongs, and samples.\u00a0 Visually it was quite a sight too: three Tibetan nuns washed in the soft light of candles, flanked by electric guitar and a percussion array.\u00a0 Deep stirrings I can&#8217;t even begin to discuss here were triggered by the sound of <em>Ch\u00f6<\/em>, and from the response I felt from the audience, it wasn&#8217;t just happening to me.<\/p>\n<p>This ensemble&#8217;s bluster of atmosphere and rhythm was coded with enlightenment. 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