Schedule
Friday, August 8, 2025 from 4:30-5:40 pm (Main Stage)
Friday, August 8, 2025 at 10:00 pm (The Moon At O’Bannon’s)
BALTHUS (pronounced bal-thus), will vaporize the world around you and send you floating downstream with their cosmic grooves and candy-colored adherence to all that is psychedelic. A project they call “an evolving concept,” BALTHVS’ music swirls psychedelia, Middle Eastern music, surf, disco, funk and Cumbia into an enchanting, near-mystical mélange.
Balthazar Aguirre (guitar, vocals), Johanna Mercuriana (bass, vocals), Santiago Lizcano (drums, vocals) became a band in 2020 in their native Colombia. Eclectic and energetic onstage, they are wildly prolific, with – at last count – 59 singles and three albums to their credit, including 2024’s Harvest. The album mesmerizes with a fluid, deep-river current of a groove that pulls the songs along, one melding into the next. Their music (from the BALTHVS website), “generates trance and induces a plethora of emotions: Harmony, Melody and Rhythm create mood, they are definite vibe changers. Rarely does it divide men from one another; more than anything it unites.”