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Our name is Flor de Toloache. Toloache is an herb used to make people fall in love 🙂
Mariachi Flor de Toloache is the first and only established all female mariachi band founded in New York city in 2008 by Mireya I. Ramos. Originally a trio, the band has grown to 10 members with all the essential and traditional instruments, violins, trumpets, guitarron (bass), vihuela (5 string guitar) and guitar.
“The Brooklyn-ite’s debut album wondrously fits the space that had been empty since jazz-country genius Danny Gatton. It’s the closest that modern music fans might get to a fretboard meeting between New York City and Nashville.” —Todd Lazarski, Express Milwaukee
Jason Loughlin, owner of the Bedford Avenue based independent label Big Pop Records, has supported artists such as Amos Lee, Rachael Yamagata, Nellie McKay, Lesley Gore, Mike Viola and the Sweetback Sisters, to name a few. Downbeat Magazine calls him “an instrumentalist of great range, taste and joy”.