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Gertie N the T.O. Boyz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ต.ค. 2020
- Gertie N the T.O. Boyz is famous for its crowd-moving, old-time traditional Tohono O’odham music or “waila,” a blend of Norteño, cumbia, and polka sounds. The band consists of Gertie on the accordion along with saxophone, violin, bass, bajo sexto, and drums. All band members are from the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southwestern and Central Arizona. The only female-led waila band on the Tohono O’odham Nation, Gertie N the TO Boyz was the musical band for Borderlands Theater’s “A Tucson Pastorela” for nearly 20 years and has performed all over Arizona’s cities and tribal lands and across the United States. In 2010, the band was nominated for a Native American Music Awards in the Waila Category. In 2016 Gertie received a Lifetime Achievement award from Cultural Sounds of Tucson. She is the recipient of a 2017 Master-Apprentice Artist Award from the Southwest Folklife Alliance in recognition of her work upholding the waila tradition and passing it on to new generations. In 2019 she traveled to Washington D.C. where was a panelist at the Library of Congress in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Gertie considers herself an ambassador for waila music, a form she learned from her dad, Augustine Lopez Sr.
Waila is the traditional social dance music of the Tohono O’odham (Desert People). Drawn from the Mexican norteño tradition, though strictly instrumental, waila musicians play polkas, chotes (two-steps), cumbias, mazurka, and kwalya, a type of square dance danced at festivities of all occasions. bands that typically include saxophones and/or accordions, bajo sexto or electric guitar, electric bass and drums.
❤️ Beautiful 🥰 💖 music 🎶
Always lighting up the house with your waila jams!! From the rock house to Antonios Santa rosa cafe and so many other places in Tucson!! I will always luv ya Gertie keep it rocking!! 🤙😊✊️🎶🪗🎸🎷🥁🎶
I danced to all of these. The best memories. My Grandparents on the dance floor dancing. Dancing their best self! Thank you for the memories
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Goodness Gracious playing all the classics! I miss T-town. My hometown Tucson, Az much love.
My favorite music from my childhood and still ❤ 😍 till this day.
🎶🎷🎼AWESOME MUMSIGO AS
ALWAYZ🎸🎶🥁
Great blessed scenery & evening. Y'all jammed
some fab music👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 & nice colors 😎 Thx Cuz Gertie for sharing & ALWAYZ giving props to the +past+ & present mumsigo 💙🎼💙 & acknowledging peepz where EVER your at, weather it be home, away, far away, near etc...KEEP UP THE GREAT JAMZ & the rest of you AWESOME MUMSIGO 👉🏽YOU KNOW WHOM YOU ARE👈🏽
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Ahh So Much Memories Of My Grandparents😔 May They Both Rest In Peace🙏Amazing Job Gertie 💜💛 Got My Feet Moving👣
my Grandpa Leonard Harrison played for SANTAN Band back in the Day..My grandparents Harold,Stella Lyons use to invite all kinds of bands to play at the old house..Loved it so much..n the traditional good..yeah..
At 44:15 into your wonderful performance, I lost it. My grandparents favorite song to dance to! In tears. Thank you for your music. Cone to Las Vegas.
27:32 really nice cumbia
This music reminds me of my father and grandpa 👍🏽👍🏽
I can't even! Where can I buy your music. At 1:00.4. One hour 4 minutes into your concert this song my Grandfather taught my first two step. Thank you.
Love your songs Always wanted your band to be at my housewarming gift...buts it's not build.. Sacaton Az.were related,Ay Augustine Lopez was related to Harold Lyons ofGila River...