Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band - 10/26
Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band - 10/26
APLR Presents: Benefit For BeLoved Asheville featuring Seán Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band
October, 26th, 2024
AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Doors 6PM || Show 7PM
APLR and Seán Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band warmly welcome you to a night of interactive, soul-stirring chant music to benefit BeLoved Asheville, who have done tremendous and tireless work to help rebuild our community after the devastation of Helene.
In 2005, Seán founded the band as a post-hurricane Katrina philanthropic music project, raising funds across the country for relief from the devastation of the storm. The theme of searching for grace and inspiration amidst challenge and destruction has permeated their music ever since.
Please join us for an evening of fundraising, community building, and live music.
Experience heart-expanding ancient mantras, given new voice through dynamic songs that merge conscious lyrics and New Orleans roots, rock, gospel, and world grooves.
The band includes Seán (vocals and harmonium); Alvin Young (6 string fretless bass & guitar); Gwendolyn Colman (percussion & vocals); Narada Wise (drums) and multi-instrumentalist Chris Rosser.
”The music of Seán Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band flows from the mystical confluence of the Ganges River and the Mississippi Delta—the deep bhakti tradition of Indian devotional chanting fused with the cultural cross-currents that so enrich the music of the group’s hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. The result is music of majestic musical and emotional range—a heart journey from darkness to light, wrought from the homespun cloth of gospel, blues, soul, country, rock, Celtic folk, and other musical influences, all filtered through the magical Afro-Caribbean-inflected rhythmic flair of the Crescent City.
The much-beloved band evoke, conjure and celebrate that universally felt yet impossible-to-define essence that lies at the heart of all things, what Bob Marley once called “a natural mystic, flowing through the air.” – Alan di Perna (Rolling Stone Magazine, Creem, Billboard)