Cordovas Live at The Abbey Bar on August 1
Support TBA
Saturday, August 1 2026
Doors: 7pm
Music: 8pm
Presale Tickets: $20
DOS: $25
All Ages - Under 21 Must be Accopanied by 25+ Parent or Guardian
Cordovas Bio
Cordovas are an Americana rock band out of Nashville whose sound, equal parts soulful
harmony, poetic craft, and cosmic improvisation, has long earned comparisons to The Band,
Grateful Dead, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. But with their fifth studio album, Back to Life (out
January 30, 2026, on Yep Roc Records), the group sharpens the edges of its identity: road-
tested, deeply traditional in the ways that matter, and determined to be respected on its own
terms.
The band’s heartbeat lies between two places. In Todos Santos, Mexico, where Cordovas have
lived, written, and built a small community of artists, the songs take shape in their most relaxed
state, often amongst a circle of friends. Then it’s back to Nashville, where rehearsal, touring,
and recording hammer those ideas into their final form. This cycle has defined the last three
years of work, producing songs that are both varied and cohesive, each one revealing another
side of the band’s range.
At the center of Cordovas are songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Firstman and
guitarist/vocalist Lucca Soria, partners in what they call a “musical friendship.” The new record
is a testament to their growth not just as musicians but as people. “I’m extremely blessed,”
Firstman says. “Everywhere I look is love, and I set it up that way. My whole life is designed
around art, not around bills or phone calls. Everything is based on love and enthusiasm, and it
radiates from there.”
Soria frames it differently but with the same spirit of devotion: “People are at service to us, and
we are at service to them. I am incentivized to do my best all of the time in the service of others.
In Mexico, it’s also a community. Everyone has a role, and I want to do the best I can for the
community.”
That philosophy is embodied in the band’s communal compound in Todos Santos. Over the
years, Cordovas have acquired five houses there—each designed by Firstman, each tailored to
the people who live or pass through them. More than just residences, they function as creative
havens: a space where friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers are invited in to write songs,
make demos, stage impromptu shows, or simply live alongside the band in a shared rhythm of
art and life. It’s not a retreat from the world but a way of reshaping it—an intentional
community built around the belief that music thrives when it’s lived in, day after day, with
others.
