Lirios En El Valle

Showings

The State Theatre Fri, Sep 4 7:30 PM

Description


 It's not LA. It's not New York. It's not Nashville. California's Central Valley, a region best known for almond orchards, is quietly home to some of the biggest names in the fastest-growing music genre in America: regional Mexican music.

Lirios En El Valle travels through Modesto and Stanislaus County to meet the artists building that movement from the ground up: rising songwriters, working bands, and the educators and families who raised them. The film traces how a genre rooted in immigrant labor and backyard gatherings exploded into a commercial force, and how the Valley became a generative hub the industry still hasn't fully caught up to.