Larry and Joe

Larry & Joe

Appalachian Folk and Traditional Venezuelan Fusion

Music: 4:00pm/ $20 in advance. $25/door

PLEASE NOTE: This Show is scheduled at a Special Time.

Seating is Limited and First Come.

Larry & Joe were destined to make music together. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, maracas, guitar, upright bass, and whatever else they decide to throw in the van

Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry worked construction to make ends meet. Joe's acclaimed "latingrass" band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted into action working with asylum seeking migrants. Then Larry met Joe.

Currently based in the Triangle of North Carolina, both men are versatile multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters on a mission to show that music has no borders. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, maracas, guitar, upright bass, and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.

Together, they fuse Appalachian folk and traditional Venezuelan music in dizzying ways.  - San Francisco Chronicle

Their virtuosity is jaw dropping live…they both take great, transcendent joy in making this music together, and that kind of joy is contagious. - Folk Alley

…the unexpectedness of this musical match is part of the delight…[Nuevo South Train],  in all its collaborative glory, is a reminder that roots music is about maintaining and sharing traditions, regardless of where the diasporas take them. - No Depression

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