I just fell in love with this music the first time I heard it and am so excited to have them here. Lone Piñon will be featured at Fiddle Tunes this year; here's your chance to catch them on the small stage :)

Lone Pinon is an acoustic conjunto from Northern New Mexico whose music celebrates the diversity and integrity of their region’s cultural roots. Using multiple instruments and singing in Spanish, English, Nahuatl, and P’urépecha, the group has revived and updated the Chicano stringband style that once flourished in New Mexico, bringing a devoted musicianship to Northern New Mexican polkas and chotes, virtuosic Mexican huapango and son calentano, and classic borderlands conjunto.

https://www.lonepinon.com/

Noah Martinez (bajo sexto, quinta huapanguera, vihuela, tololoche, guitarrón) grew up in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque immersed in the music of his community: Onda Chicana, New Mexican rancheras, punk rock, norteño, honky-tonk, Western swing, and the jaranero movement.

Jordan Wax (violin, accordions, vocals) grew up in Missouri and was traditionally trained by master Ozark fiddler Fred Stoneking and Central Missouri dance fiddler John White. His work with Missouri and New Mexican fiddle styles inspired him to travel to Mexico for a 6-month immersion in Mexican huapango fiddling, where he learned from Rolando “El Quecho” Hernandez and Casimiro Granillo. His studies of traditional New Mexico dance music have been guided and inspired in the past years by Tomas Maes and Antonia Apodaca. This winter he traveled to Morelia, Michoacán for a few weeks of intensive study with Serafin Ibarra Cortez and P’urépecha elder and composer Tata Pedro Dimas.

They will be joined by Tanya Nuñez (upright bass) on this tour.

Here they are performing at The Kennedy Center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUokwrygeo4

I particularly like this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4-Uxy6BeU

Dinner at 6:30, BYOB and things like chips welcome; show at 7:30

Suggested contribution is $20/person; 100% to the musicians.