Little Joe Y La Familia
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
7:00PM
Jose DeLeon Hernandez, known as “Little Joe”, is a five-time GRAMMY Award-winning performer, a 2019 State Musician and humanitarian. Recipient of the 2023 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts, which is the United States government ‘s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Little Joe Y La Familia is a genre-blending band uniting elements of Latin, norteno, blues, jazz, country, pop, and classical music. “Las Nubes” incorporates violins and other strings, is the most popular recorded classic, a track, that details the Chicano experience of migrant farm work. Hernandez has performed with Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and Don Henley. He began his career in 1955. Little Joe is an American Tejano legend who was born in a shack and raised in Temple, Texas.