Argentine string band Che Apalache play “Latingrass,” which might at first seem like a sterile hybrid, but even a few minutes of listening to this four-piece are enough to demonstrate how beautifully Latin folk and bluegrass sounds can intertwine. Multi-instrumentalist and North Carolina native Joe Troop is a music teacher in Buenos Aires, and in 2018 he explained the group’s genesis to Bluegrass Today: the Appalachian folk style wasn’t popular in his adopted city when he arrived in 2010, but the instruments used to make it were.…
Argentine string band Che Apalache play “Latingrass,” which might at first seem like a sterile hybrid, but even a few minutes of listening to this four-piece are enough to demonstrate how beautifully Latin folk and bluegrass sounds can intertwine. Multi-instrumentalist and North Carolina native Joe Troop is a music teacher in Buenos Aires, and in 2018 he explained the group’s genesis to Bluegrass Today: the Appalachian folk style wasn’t popular in his adopted city when he arrived in 2010, but the instruments used to make it were.…