Fri, Oct 23
Los Hermanos Mendoza
Norteño is family music in the most literal sense — the accordion gets handed down, the bajo sexto gets handed down, and the group is usually people who share a last name and have been playing together since before any of them could drive. That lineage is the whole appeal and it is also why the recorded versions never quite land the way a room does. Brothers who have played together their entire lives phrase together in a way rehearsal cannot manufacture. A Friday night in a mid-size Ventura room means the audience is local, multigenerational, and there to dance rather than to observe. Grandparents will be on the floor before anyone under thirty commits. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. If your family had this playing on a Sunday morning growing up, this is the show you bring them to, and that is most of the point.
Norteño is family music in the most literal sense — the accordion gets handed down, the bajo sexto gets handed down, and the group is usually people who share a last name and have been playing together since before any of them could drive. That lineage is the whole appeal and it is also why the recorded versions never quite land the way a room does. Brothers who have played together their entire lives phrase together in a way rehearsal cannot manufacture. A Friday night in a mid-size Ventura room means the audience is local, multigenerational, and there to dance rather than to observe. Grandparents will be on the floor before anyone under thirty commits. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. If your family had this playing on a Sunday morning growing up, this is the show you bring them to, and that is most of the point.
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Norteño is family music in the most literal sense — the accordion gets handed down, the bajo sexto gets handed down, and the group is usually people who share a last name and have been playing together since before any of them could drive. That lineage is the whole appeal and it is also why the recorded versions never quite land the way a room does. Brothers who have played together their entire lives phrase together in a way rehearsal cannot manufacture. A Friday night in a mid-size Ventura room means the audience is local, multigenerational, and there to dance rather than to observe. Grandparents will be on the floor before anyone under thirty commits. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. If your family had this playing on a Sunday morning growing up, this is the show you bring them to, and that is most of the point.
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