A blend of original and traditional music inspired by Mexican, Appalachian & Atlantic basin musics.

Mexilachian music is a new style of traditional music inspired by Mexican and Appalachian song forms, Jewish and Eastern European tonalities, Baroque melodic ideas, and narrative storytelling approaches. They have created a repertoire that constitutes a new traditional music that is being shared with their children to experience, transform, and pass on.

The Lua Project has been called a ‘cultural pollinator’, and was formed by David Berzonsky and Estela Knott after they returned to Virginia to raise children after almost a decade of travelling, performing, and recording, throughout the Western hemisphere, in places as far afield as Lima, Peru, Veracruz, Mexico, Recife, Brazil, and Berkeley, Ca.