Lotus Wight – Original Works For Voice and Banjo

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Lotus Wight sings and writes songs that sound like they are from times of old and his inimitable style has been talked about in the folk music world for years. Wight plays music in the key of Folk, Blues and Ragtime. Audiences are captivated by Lotus’ seamless movement from banjo to jaw-harp to guitar and his own invention, the contrabass harmoniphoneum. Wight has played all over the globe including the Shetland Islands, Turkey, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

Lotus was brought to Canada in a basket at the age of 18 months. At the age of eight years he professed his love for the 1920s era actress, Margaret DuMont, whom he had seen in the films of the Marx Brothers. When he learned of her death, he fell into a deep depression which could only be healed by listening to the music of that era.

Tin-pan alley, ragtime jazz and fiddle tunes from the American South were the balm for his young soul, and an important influence on his later music projects.

As a young adult, Lotus was engaged with an itinerant square-dance band and travelled throughout the United States for eight years, playing dance music and studying fiddle, banjo and songs of the American vernacular. It was during this time that Allison’s alter ego, Lotus Wight was conceived and born.

Original Works For Voice and Banjo – After two decades of reviving and revising old-time music, Lotus Wight released a collection of original works.
The collection spawns from a deeply personal well of songs which were inspired by multiple decades of old-time and folk music obsession that includes political commentary, old time hilarity, historic document and life experience.
Wight plays five string banjo, bass harmonica, harmonium and string bass on this amazing trove of original music.

released February 25, 2025

The recordings were made at Stove Studios with engineer and co-producer James Stephens in Chelsea, Quebec.
Art and layout by Dina Torrans. Photography by Bryan Reid.

Sam plays a Luke Mercier five-string early A.C. Fairbanks-inspired classic banjo with a Dobson style tone ring, and a Bill Rickard five-string tuba-phone banjo.

Visit: lotuswight.com

Visit: bandcamp.com/original-works-for-voice-and-banjo-by-lotus-wight

Running time: 68 minutes.