Larry & Joe are on a mission to prove that music has no borders.
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This is our rendition of Alton Delmore’s classic, “Goin’ Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains,” which Joe transliterated to Spanish. After a year of performing it nationwide, the song has become Larry’s humble homage to his beloved adoptive homeland, North Carolina.
After a grueling eight week tour through the midwest, west coast, and southwest, we crossed back into North Carolina and cut this video with Joe’s family.
You can hear the elation in our playing and singing. We were excited to be back home to play for our favorite mountains. The cuatro sounds pretty dern good in Bluegrass, no?
Thanks to Joe’s brother Josh, sister-in-law Cam, narf narf Eli, and buddy Krysta for rallying together and filming this on their cell phones. And props to Michelle for lending us her front yard in Fairview, North Carolina.
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Larry & Joe were destined to make music together.
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.
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CREW
Video team:
Josh Troop, Cam Richardson, Eli Troop, Krysta Oelhafen
Title font designed by Sam Sheridan
BAND
Larry Bellorín - cuatro
Joe Troop - fiddle
Music by Alton Delmore
Transliterated (with permission) by Joe Troop
Performed by Larry & Joe - @larryandjoe
Shot in Fairview, North Carolina
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