The Lowell Folk Festival announced the latest round of talented musicians from across the country that will grace four stages during the 2022 Lowell Folk Festival.
Belen Escobedo grew up in a family of Spanish and Indigenous descent. She began playing violin in fourth grade. Though Belen was trained classically, she was hired by a mariachi who heard her play at Sunday mass as a teenager. Mariachi music got her through college and graduate school. Belen taught music in San Antonio schools for thirty years and now works to preserve the music of the Texas-Mexican borderlands with her trio: Panfilo's Güera, named for her grandfather's inspiration.