#4760, Venezuelan Roots Music Meets Appalachian Folk
Venezuelan legend of Llanera music Larry Bellorín and GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician Joe Troop play as Larry & Joe. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina, and worked construction to make ends meet, although he has been a musician and educator all his life. Troop, a socially conscious “Latingrass” musician with Che Apalache, has written songs about migration, and works with asylum seekers; he relocated to North Carolina to be in this duo with Larry.
Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music come together on Larry’s custom-built Joropo folk harp (and cuatro, bandola, maracas, and upright bass) and Joe’s fiddle and banjo, as they blend their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling. Hear Larry & Joe perform remotely from the 2023 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, as well as selections from their new record, Nuevo South Train.
Plus, hear music from a Soundcheck Podcast session with Mafer Bandola, aka Maria Fernanda González, who is originally from Venezuela, and is one of the few women who plays bandola and electric bandola professionally.
Program #4760, Larry & Joe from Big Ears Festival 2023 (First aired 6/13/23)
ARTIST: Larry & Joe
WORK: Larry's Cachapa [1:42]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe, with Charlie Hunter
WORK: Moliendo Café [2:58]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe
WORK: Gabanjo [4:44]
RECORDING: Live, Knoxville, Big Ears Festival 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on Nuevo South Train, available at larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe, with Charlie Hunter
WORK: Pablo Canela: Gavilán Tocuyano [3:32]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe
WORK: Caballo Viejo [4:25]
RECORDING: Live, Knoxville, Big Ears Festival 2023
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The song appears on Nuevo South Train, available at larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe, with Charlie Hunter
WORK: Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms [:45]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe, with Charlie Hunter
WORK: Nuevo South Train [:54]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Larry & Joe
WORK: Larry's Cachapa [3:41]
RECORDING: Nuevo South Train
SOURCE/INFO: larryandjoe.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Mafer Bandola
WORK: Zumba que Zumba [1:31]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Sept. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: maferbandola.com
ARTIST: Mafer Bandola
WORK: Agreste [2:26]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Sept. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: maferbandola.com
