Conjunto Los Pochos is a Los Angeles-based music group that is celebrating fifteen years of performing for audiences throughout Southern California and the Southwest. Its members are Otoño Lujan on accordion, Elliot Barbeault on bajo sexto guitar and Ernesto Molina on bass and veteran musician Lorenzo Martinez. Latinopia caught up with the group in a typical Sunday afternoon tardeada (afternoon party) in East Los Angeles. The song they perform, “Paso del Norte,” is a traditional corrido (ballad) that recounts the loneliness of the immigrant in America–although its reference is immigrants passing from Mexico through El Paso, Texas, into the United States, the sentiments expressed are certainly the same feelings of estrangement felt by Irish, German, Italian and other immigrants in times past.