Idaho Mexican Music Project

• Really terrific to be able to work on these short films with Steven Hatcher and Idaho Commission on the Arts. It is very satisfying to know that we are part of something that is adding to an historical record and will live on for future generations of scholars and the public.

• In the summer of 2019, Steven Hatcher, Director of the Folk & Traditional Arts Program at the Idaho Commission on the Arts, set off to document Mexican musical traditions across southern Idaho’s Snake River Plain with two fieldworkers from Boise State University and a carload of borrowed audio and video equipment. The Idaho Mexican Music Project was born.
  
  The opportunity to edit and create a series of mini films from hours of interviews and performances was an opportunity that we just could not pass up.
  Anyone familiar with, and who loves the work of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax as we do, will understand the enthusiasm in which we greeted this opportunity.
  Enjoy the first stop on the tour...​