Los Lorcas: Poetry in Concert

In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca—gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright and ebullient performer—poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up.

Los Lorcas blur boundaries between spoken word and song, weaving poetry with Andalusian ballads, blues, rock, folk, reggae, hip hop, Americana and jazz in pursuit of the cante jondo (deep song) Lorca ardently championed.

The house band for the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Los Lorcas explore common roots and synergies of poetry and music, celebrating the poetry of song lyrics and music of lyrical poetry.

Inspired by artists diverse as Lorca, Yeats, Marley, Dylan, Dickinson, Kavanagh, Matisyahu, Morrison, Cohen, Bowie, Lumineers, Heaney, REM, Merwin, Millay and others, the group’s timely and soulful compositions weave themes of love, loss, homelessness, empathy, activism and gratitude—all through a filter of the American dream.