Left: Osmín Lovo plays the string bass with the Chanchona de Los Hermanos Lovo, a Salvadoran family-based music ensemble that plays for social events, helping make a new place feel more like "home" for the large Salvadoran community in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Right: Composer and violinist Trinidad Lovo recalls how he started the Salvadoran ensemble La Chanchona de los Hermanos Lovo in Virginia: "Here, when one realizes that all one does is work, we decided to get together with relatives and play."
Right: Composer and violinist Trinidad Lovo recalls how he started the Salvadoran ensemble La Chanchona de los Hermanos Lovo in Virginia: "Here, when one realizes that all one does is work, we decided to get together with relatives and play."
Photo by Daniel Sheehy, Smithsonian Institution
A Northern Virginia spin-off of an award-winning group in their home country of El Salvador, Los Hermanos Lovo perform danceable cumbias and rancheras at family events and restaurants in the area. The seven-piece ensemble—with its two violins, two guitars, percussion, and bass—takes its name from its large bass, which resembles a chanchona, or sow.
- Trinidad Lovo, leader, violin
- Yonatan Fuentes Lovo, drums
- José Alfredo Fuentes Ventura, congas
- Édgar Lovo, vihuela
- Cristino Membreño Lovo, violin
- Eliseo Membreño Lovo, guitar
- Osmín Lovo, string bass
