Larry & Joe

Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a

GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in

South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry worked construction to make ends meet. Joe's acclaimed

"latingrass" band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted lnto action working with asylum seeking migrants. Then Larry met Joe and the rest is history, music history!