Doors at 6:30 | Show at 7:00
All ages are welcome.
Free parking in the lot across the street until full.
Larry & Joe is the duo of Joropo maestro Larry Bellorín (Monagas, Venezuela) and GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime star Joe Troop (Winston-Salem, North Carolina). These two virtuosic multi-instrumentalists fuse their respective Venezuelan and Appalachian folk traditions on the harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, upright bass, guitar, and maracas to prove that music has no borders. Their engaging bilingual (esp / eng) program includes storytelling, humor, singalongs, and dancing.
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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Larry & Joe estaban destinados a hacer música juntos.
Oriundo de Monagas, Venezuela, Larry es una leyenda de la música llanera. Proveniente de Carolina del Norte, Joe es un músico de bluegrass y oldtime que fue nominado para un GRAMMY. Larry tuvo que exiliarse a Carolina del Norte y es solicitante de asilo. Joe, después de una década en Sudamérica quedó varado en su tierra natal por la pandemia. Larry trabajó en construcción para llegar a fin de mes. Cuando el ascenso de su renombrada banda Che Apalache se detuvo, Joe pivotó para trabajar con migrantes solicitando asilo. Entonces Larry conoció a Joe.
Actualmente basados en el Triángulo de Carolina del Norte, ambos hombres son multi-instrumentistas versátiles con una misión de mostrar que la música no tiene fronteras. Como dueto tocan una fusión de folklore de Venezuela y de los montes Apalaches en arpa, banjo, cuatro, violín, maracas, guitarra, contrabajo y cualquier otra cosa que decidan subir a la camioneta. Como músicos su programa ofrece una mezcla única de sus diversas herencias y tradiciones, y cómo cuentacuentos demuestran cómo la música y los movimientos sociales interactúan.
MARIACHI ROSAS DEL SOL
Mariachi Rosas del Sol is an independent collective of musicians who first came together in September 2022 while taking a college mariachi class at Portland State University.
Over time, this colectivo has grown from a group of strangers into a “mariachi familia”.
Despite having different reasons why individual group members are committed to learn and play this traditional music, (ranging from feeling a sense of cultural connection and pride, to being curious and appreciative of playing a new style of music) all the members have a unified vision of wanting to share the passion they have with audiences around Portland and beyond.
They feel incredibly lucky to have received the warm welcome they have so far from the Portland community and welcome audience members to follow them on social media. IG @mariachi_rosas_del_sol
Aaron Andrade (he/him)
Instruments: voice, clarinet, flute, guitar (self taught), and bass (self taught)
From Forest Grove, family from México (Michoacán and Guadalajara).
Freshman in college majoring in Performance with clarinet.
Dream job/aspirations: To become a famous mariachi
Fun Fact: He’s currently learning bassoon!
Carlos Marquez (he/him)
Instrument: guitar
From Forest Grove, parents are from México (Michoacán and Sonora)
Freshman in college majoring in Psychology
Dream job/aspirations: To go to med school and become a psychiatrist
Fun Fact: He has an orange cat.
Cori Arnold (They/Them, ella)
Instruments: guitarrón and bass, mostly self taught, with a lot of experience as a bass player (especially in jazz and Latin music)
From the Sonoran desert in the Phoenix area. Mother is from Burma/Myanmar and father is from Tucson.
Currently working as a bilingual math teacher.
Fun Fact: They used to be a rapper and are now teaching themself to be a conguera
Special Guest! Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez (she/her/they/them) from the Central Andes
Assistant Professor at PSU & violinist
Isabella Bernaola (she/her)
Instrument: voice (self taught)
Born in VA, grew up around Savannah, Georgia and Seattle. Parents are from Bogotá, Colombia and Ponce, Puerto Rico
Dream job/aspirations: To be a musician or a stylist
Fun Fact: The only time she has been to the hospital was related to an injury related to climbing a couch.
Aoi Nathalia Mizushima (she/her/ella)
Instrument: voice (self taught)
Born in Queens, NY, raised in SoCal, parents from Xalapa, México and Miyazaki, Japan
Is a physician caring for students at PSU’s student health center.
Fun fact: She once willingly agreed to be bitten on the finger by a wild alligator lizard as part of an “experiment” during a herpetology field trip.
Raul Hernández-Ramírez (he/him)
Instruments: vihuela, guitar, guitarrón (self taught), piano (self taught)
Born in Cali, raised in Hillsboro, family from México (Oaxaca and Michoacán)
Freshman in college majoring in Public Health
Dream job/aspirations:To become a pharmaceutical researcher
Fun fact: He’s currently learning how to play the viola!
**Other members of Mariachi Rosas del Sol who are either not pictured here or unable to be with us for the May 19th performance: Joe Soto(voice), Gladis Manriquez(violin),
Erik Bonilla-Vallejo(violin), Joaquin Sepulveda Ensslin (violin), Jay Wade(vihuela),
Enrique Hernandez-Lopez(guitar, trumpet), Eddy Gomez-Rios(vihuela)