Los Hermanos Lovo: a Salvadoran Chanchona accumulation from Leesburg, Virginia

For a higher quality version of this video, please click on this link: www.youtube.com More Information Here: www.folkways.si.edu On September 13, two days before Salvadoran independence day, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings releases '¡Soy Salvadoreño!', an album of chanchona music by the El Salvadoran expatriate family-band Los Hermanos Lovo. The collection, comprised of Salvadoran standards, borrowed songs from other genres, and two original compositions, stands as a true representation of the musical style that has become synonymous with the group's homeland. '¡Soy Salvadoreño! is the 32nd release in the Smithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions series since 2002. The series, a co-production with the Smithsonian Latino Center, showcases the diverse musical heritage of the 50 million Latinos living in the USA. Los Hermanos Lovo violinist and bandleader Trinidad Lovo and many of his family members left El Salvador for Northern Virginia during the civil war that tore their homeland apart in the late 1980s, but they brought traditional chanchona music with them. Six of the seven members are from the extended Lovo family -- Trinidad, drummer Yonatan Fuentes, vihuelist Édgar, violinist Cristino Membreño, guitarist Eliseo Membreño and bassist Hozmín -- and brother-in-law Alfredo Fuentes rounds out the group. Los Hermanos Lovo feature dual violin melodies and dance-inducing cumbia rhythms -- like those on "El carnaval de mi tierra" ("The Carnival of My Land") -- and the ...