Categories: American Music

Roy Lancaster

Trombone player and singer in the second line brass band The Young Fellaz Brass Band from New Orleans. The band was formed in 2005 with only 3 members walking around their neighbourhood playing their instruments out of the love of music. Over the next couple of years, the band would flourish to many more members, and they regularly have lively street performances on the corner of Frenchman Street and Decatur in the Marigny neighbourhood of New Orleans

Photographed in Washington Square, New Orleans.

Mikky Ekko

Alternative indie rock artist. Photographed in East Nashville where he works as a singer-songwriter and a record producer. In 2012, Ekko was featured on Rihannas album «Unapologetic», on the track «Stay», which chartered in multiple countries. The song was written by Ekko and English songwriter, Justin Parker.

Alvaro del Norte

Lead singer and accordionist Alvaro formed the Tex-Mex punk band Piñata Protest in 2006

San Antonio, Texas

Mark Halata

The lead singer and accordion player in the Houston-based Czech polka band Texavia. Photographed at the annual Wurstfest in New Braunfels, Texas

Kristin Diable
Americana singer/songwriter, New Orleans , Louisiana

Piñata Protest
San Antonio, Texas

The iconic Texan cowboy, rodeo and honky tonk music has made Texas famous, but immigration has also made the state a melting pot of cultures, each bringing with them their own unique musical heritage. Mexican Tejano Conjunto music was born out of south Texas after German and Polish settlers introduced polka, waltz and the button accordion at the turn of the 19^th century.

San Antonio is the cradle of Tejano Conjunto music, and local legends like the Grammy Award winning Flaco Jimenez, are still influencing new generations of musicians to pick up the accordion. A devout fan is Alvare del Norte, the frontman of the punk polka band Pinata Protest. They are reinventing Tejano Conjunto music, infusing punk with the traditional