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.
In the past eight years Lone Piñon has played extensively throughout the Southwest and the US and recorded four studio albums: "Trio Nuevomexicano" (2016), "Días Felices," (2017), "Dále Vuelo,"(2019), and "Nuevas Acequias, Río Viejo: Traditional Music of Northern New Mexico"(2020). The band’s discography reflects the diversity of eight years of live performances and includes recordings with past collaborator Leticia Gonzales (violin, percussion, vocals, jarana huasteca) and founding members Noah Martinez (tololoche, guitarron, bajo sexto, huapanguera, guitar) and Greg Glassman (guitar, jarana huasteca, vocals), who have since moved on to other projects but whose voices have been foundational to the existence and character of the project.
In August 2018 Lone Piñon was invited by the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center to Washington DC, where they recorded a concert and an oral history of their work with New Mexican and Mexican musical traditions. In 2019 they were honored to teach and perform Northern New Mexico fiddle and dance alongside traditional masters from across North America and Europe at Centrum’s Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, WA. A documentary film about their work with traditional music, "En Donde los Bailadores se Entregan los Corazones," premiered in 2019 and won several awards at film festivals in the US, Canada, and Mexico. In 2019 the band received the Parsons Award from the American Folklife Center, which brought them back to the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2020 to study the Library’s collection of field recordings of Northern New Mexican musicians and to record another program of music they have learned and revived from the Juan B. Rael archive.
