Lone Piñon Concert, Food Truck, Baile Dance at Campbell School

Join us, MONDAY, August 4, in Festival Barn for a Traditional New Mexico Music concert with Lone Piñon along with the ARK Caribbean food truck. Dinner will be ready to sell at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7 p.m. They will also teach their traditional dances August 5 at 7 p.m. in Keith House. For more info see lonepinon.com/baile-fandango
Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or “orquesta típica”, whose music celebrates the integrity of their region's cultural roots. With fiddles, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of traditional music from New Mexico.
The Norte has long been a crossroads of cultures, and centuries of intersecting histories, trade routes, migrations, and cultural movements have endowed the region with an expansive musical heritage that weaves together Spanish, Mexican, Indigenous, European, and Afro-American influences. The oldest strands of this tradition have survived, renewed by each generation’s contribution to core style and repertoire. Though rapid cultural change since the ‘50s has led to these sounds becoming scarce in their home territory, they never fully disappeared--thanks to the elders that tenaciously carry them forward.
Lone Piñon learned from elder musicians who instilled a respect for continuity and cross-cultural solidarity, necessary for musical traditions to adapt and thrive. Since 2014 Lone Piñon has shared the sounds of traditional New Mexico string music and brought the language of the orquesta típica back onto the modern stage, dance floors, and into young ears.
Lone Piñon’s repertoire includes a wide range of regionally-relevant material (Western swing, conjunto, New Mexican Spanish and Mexican ranchera, Central Mexican son regional, country, onda chicana, etc.) around the core New Mexican violin and accordion-driven polkas, cunas, inditas, valses, and chotes learned from elders.