On Friday, May 9th the acclaimed New Mexican band Lone Piñon featuring Jordan Wax, Karina Wilson, Santiago Romero and Tanya Nunez returns to the Event Shed at the Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village! The museum kicks off its 2025 "Music at the Museum" free concert series with this beloved band offering a dynamic bilingual performance to create a night of music that delights everyone.
Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or “orquesta típica”, whose music celebrates the integrity and diversity of their region's cultural roots. With fiddles, upright bass, guitars, accordions, vihuela, and bilingual vocals, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico.
The band explains that 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 and rich musical heritage that weaves together Spanish, Mexican, Indigenous, European immigrant, Anglo-American, and Afro-American musical influences. The oldest strands of this tradition have survived in continuity, renewed by each new generation’s contribution to core style and repertoire that has been passed from musician to musician, in some cases over many centuries.
The musicians of Lone Piñon learned from elder musicians who instilled in them a respect for continuity and an example of the radicalism, creativity, and cross-cultural solidarity that has always been necessary for musical traditions to adapt and thrive in each generation. In 2014, Lone Piñon was founded as a platform for creativity around the oldest sounds of traditional New Mexico string music, sounds that had all but disappeared from daily life in many Northern New Mexico communities. They have brought the language of the New Mexico orquesta típica back onto the modern stage, back onto dance floors, into a contemporary aesthetic/artistic conversation, and into the ears of a young generation.
”Lone Piñon aren’t some rinky-dink trio from the American Southwest. They can hold their own against any headliner, anywhere in the world. They’re simply that good, and they make the music of the border into something living, breathing and absolutely enticing.” -fROOTS Magazine, UK
Enter the Pioneer Village through the west gate off of Park Avenue by the Aztec Splash Pad. Seating provided or bring your own chairs. Concessions available. No pets are allowed for the safety and enjoyment of guests and musicians. Service animals only.
This free concert is made possible through the generosity of the Connie Gotsch Arts Foundation, New Mexico Music Commission, Northwest New Mexico Arts Council, a private donor and fan of the band, and the museum's 2025 sponsors!
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