Che Apalache

Best known up until now as the banjo player and chief provocateur for the band Che Apalache, Joe Troop took heart with the arrival of 2021, thanks to the election of a new president and hope that a series of

Alani Sugar with Che Apalache and friends at the Hill Center in Washington, DC - photo by David Morris I saw the future of bluegrass the other night, just a few blocks from the nation’s Capitol. It was in the form of

Rearrange My Heart, the astonishing new CD from Che Apalache, is as challenging as it is creative. It challenges assumptions, sometimes head on, sometimes more abstractly. But it does so to an inventive soundtrack, fueled by fiddle and banjo parts

Che Apalache has generated quite a buzz in the US this past year, through a number of short tours from their native Argentina to clubs and festivals here that appreciate traditional string music. The band's genesis is unique, as is their

The brief history of Che Apalache is a power of bluegrass story of the highest order. It tells of a US string musician, Joe Troop, who moved to Argentina from North Carolina and started teaching bluegrass to interested students in

At first it seems like an unlikely combination at best — a bluegrass band that sings in Spanish and adds elements of Latin music to their material. Nevertheless, Che Apalache, a four-man string band based in Buenos Aires that includes