LUA Project
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2008
Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
Lua has been described as a “cultural pollinator,” and the process of mixing and blending musical DNA is what defines the work of this exceptional group of musicians. Whether the group is playing its original songs, or more traditional melodies out of Veracruz or the hills of Southwest Virginia, you can hear the gentle collision of Scots-Irish and Mexican traditions weaving together to create a “Mexilachian” hybrid. - DAVID BEARINGER, DIRECTOR, GRANTS & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
MEXILACHIAN MUSIC:
A BLEND OF ORIGINAL & TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM MEXICO, APPALACHIA, AND THE ATLANTIC BASIN.
Lua is a cultural pollinator, bridging together musical styles from different continents and different centuries. They write about contemporary themes, about families, and people and work and loss, but draw on the musical traditions of their own families' past.
The music is inspired by Mexican Son, Appalachian song forms, Jewish and Eastern European tonalities, baroque melodic ideas, and Scotch-Irish narrative storytelling approaches. They strive to create a repertoire that constitutes new traditional music that they will be able to pass down to their children to experience, transform, and pass on.
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