Students: welcome to Ann Arbor and to The Ark! Tonight's show is FREE with student ID. Boston's David Wax Museum fuses traditional Mexican folk materials with American roots and indie rock to create what they call a unique "Mexo-Americana" aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and, when the situation calls for it, donkey jawbone rattling, they have electrified audiences across the country and are “kicking up a cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility," according to The New Yorker.

David Wax's circuitous journey from mid-Missouri to the back roads of Mexico inspires the Museum’s blend of traditional Mexican and American folk music. While attending Deep Springs College, an unconventional school that doubles as a cattle ranch, David spent his summers working in rural Mexico with the American Friends Service Committee. He finished his degree at Harvard University before heading back to the Mexican countryside to study its rich folk music tradition on a year-long fellowship. It was there that he first began blending Midwestern folk with the instruments, rhythms, lyrical themes and song structures of son mexicano.