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We learned this polka from our friend and mentor Tomás Maes, a Santa Fe mandolinist who in turn learned it from his older cousin Antonio Rivera. Antonio was a celebrated mandolinist in Santa Fe before our time. He played with Los Paisanos de Santa Fe, a Northern New Mexico-style trio of guitar, violin, and mandolin. Over the years, we’ve taken a lot of inspiration from the recordings of Los Paisanos that Tomás shared with us.

This tune was totally at home as part of Los Paisanos’ repertoire, but it has a complex history like most of the Northern New Mexico repertoire: “El Pájaro Carpintero” originally started as a German pop song, “Am Abend Auf Der Heide,” which became a hit in 1941 and must have played on German-speaking radio stations for immigrants in South Texas. A few years later it was recorded in San Antonio as a conjunto accordion piece as “El Carpintero” by Valerio Longoria on accordion (accompanied on bajo sexto and bass by Fred and Santiago Zimmerle, who were Tejanos of German origin). We don’t know how it became part of the Northern New Mexican repertoire, but there is definitely a connection and shared repertoire between old-school South Texas and Northern New Mexican violin music. “Días Felices,” the title track of our second album, is another polka from Los Paisanos that was played by San Antonio fiddlers in the 1930s.

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from Nuevas Acequias, Rio Viejo: traditional music of Northern New Mexico, released December 15, 2019

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Lone Piñon Albuquerque, New Mexico

Lone Piñon is an acoustic conjunto from New Mexico whose music celebrates the diversity and integrity of their region's cultural roots.

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