Nuestra Musica at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

natalie coleman wrote:

>If you happen to be in Washington, DC June 30-July4
>or July 7-11, you might want to take in the
>Smithsonian's Folklife Festival on the National Mall.
>This is the announcement regarding the Nuestra Musica
>program. The other programs will be on Alberta, Canada
>and Native American Basketry.
>The Festival website can be found at:
>www.folklife.si.edu
>(This is one of my favorite activities of the summer,
>and I try to volunteer for a few days each year - a
>very rewarding experience.)
>
>(Joseph - is this an appropriate use of this forum?)
>- Natalie
>
Absolutely. . .I wish I was going to have more time when I attend DC on
the 4th for the parade I'll be in so I could attend this. It sound very
interesting.

joseph

>
>Nuestra Música: Latino Chicago is the third of four
>Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs of the
>multi-year Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture
>project, an initiative that explores and presents the
>diverse, evolving, and expanding universe of música
>Latina, which often unites and defines the largest
>minority group and fastest growing population in the
>United States. Other project components include the
>Smithsonian Folkways Recordings series
>Tradiciones/Traditions, Latino music sections in the
>Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and
>Folkways websites, and multimedia features on the
>recently launched Global Sound website.
>
>The 2006 program will highlight the music and cultural
>expressions of Chicago's diverse Latino communities
>and explore the role they play in shaping contemporary
>society, creating community, and confirming cultural
>identity. Two premier grassroots Latino music groups,
>researched and documented by Smithsonian Folkways
>Recordings, will complement the Chicago artists and
>reference the wider panorama of musical life in Latino
>USA.
>
>Musicians and dancers will engage the public in a
>variety of settings, including demonstrations,
>workshops, narrative sessions, and concerts that
>suggest a variety of community music events. The
>"coffee house" setting of La Peña, first introduced in
>the 2004 Festival program, will feature
>once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to hear musical
>exchanges between musicians from Chicago and recorded
>Folkways artists from other parts of the country.
>Mural and graphic artists will complement musicians
>and dancers by evoking the visual imagery of Chicago's
>Latino neighborhoods. Additional workshops will
>highlight Chicago's Latino radio traditions, foodways,
>and artisans whose crafts are related to music and
>dance.
>
>This program, produced in collaboration with Chicago's
>renowned Old Town School of Folk Music, complements
>the 10th anniversary of the School's Latino weekly
>musical event La Peña. California-based bilingual
>radio station, Radio Bilingüe, will continue to
>collaborate with the project and broadcast live from
>the Festival.
>
>
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