Backyard Accordion Jam with Lala and Marcella Garza
Channel: AustinMusicMap
Date: 2012-09-07

Even now, it's pretty unusual for women to play Conjunto music, but back in the 1960s—when Adelaida ("Lala") and Marcella Garza first picked up the accordion and drums and started playing in a family band—it was almost unheard of.

We joined the sisters as they got together to play after decades away from their instruments. To hear the full story, produced in collaboration with a team of youth reporters at Texas Folklife's summer radio institute, go here: 
http://www.soundcloud.com/kuts-austin-music-map/las-hermanitas-garzas-short

The Austin Music Map is produced by Delaney Hall, and brought to you by KUT, Localore—  an national initiative produced by AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio—and Zeega, with financial support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.