Southern Scratch - How Sweet The Sound: Waila Of Tohono O'odham

For more than 50 years the Joaquin name has been synonymous with the very best of Waila - the popular dance music of the Tohono O'odham (Desert People) of the Sonoran desert. Waila dances start at sunset and last until dawn. People dance to polkas, cumbias, mazurkas, boleros, shottisches and other couple dances performed on saxophone, guitar, bass, banjo sexto, percussion and drums and occasional vocals.