It’s hard to tell who’s the star of the Willard Gayheart Family Band. Of course 87-year-old Willard is the headliner, but it’s also his granddaughter, Dori Freeman, who has been hailed by Rolling Stone and the New York Times.

Belen Escobedo stands apart on the musical landscape of the Texas-Mexico borderlands; amid the accordion-led conjuntos, she is gaining more and more attention as one of the only—if not the  only—musician still playing traditional Tejano conjunto fiddle music.