Larry & Joe

July 23rd , 8:00 pm

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 works
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.
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.