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Betsayda Machado is the voice of Venezuela. Raised in the small village of El Clavo in the region of Barlovento, her recent rural recordings with...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 1
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A weekly radio show featuring the best in classic and contemporary Latin Jazz music, hosted by veteran Tony Vasquez.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WICR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Even though this episode of our weekly radio program aired on May the Sixth, we continue the Cinco de Mayo celebrations by exploring a wide variety...

  • Added: May 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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Chicago-based Fandango! plays eclectic music

Bought by WNIJ, KWAX, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra is 18 pieces in all. It’s got a growing book of tunes, a growing audience and growing stature. In 2017, the Tw...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz orchestra is a 19-piece group playing in the 21st century. The size of the band might seem incongruous in an era of stri...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:59
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From Colombia to Argentina and from Chile to Brazil, Fiesta features music representing different traditions and landscapes.

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  • Length: 58:30
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In 1959 Miles Davis and Gil Evans put together a famous jazz version of the omnipresent Concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquin Rodrigo. Now, multi-talen...

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  • Length: 58:29
Caption: Chico Freeman
Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman talks about his famous father, Von Freeman, and about his experiences living in Europe. Freeman has now returned to ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
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Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and the rising stars Kaia String Quartet, are featured in exclusive recordings of works for guitar and string quartet ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The Latino Music Festival celebrated this year its 10th anniversary with a spectacular program presented all across Chicago. Fiesta features a sele...

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  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Lila Trujillo and Julia Cooper join writer Meg Medina to discuss her book.
Book Club for Kids goes to Hooray For Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about Meg Medina's novel about bullying and mother-daughter ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:33
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During the golden age of Hollywood, countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina also developed their own healthy movie industries. Smaller nations ...

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  • Length: 58:29
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The improvement of the relationship between Cuba and the US has attracted new attention toward everything related to the island. Fiesta revisits th...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Since the 1920’s Argentine and Uruguayan composers have been using tango as a tool for breaking the wall between popular and classical music. Tango...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Premiered at La Scala Theater in Milan in May of 1870 under the its Italian title of Il Guarany, this opera by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Go...

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  • Length: 58:29
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Elbio welcomes friend and fellow Uruguayan Carlos Kalmar to our WFMT studio to talk about his orchestras and life as a conductor.

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  • Length: 58:30
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Let’s pretend that you go to your local orchestra hall and instead of the usual concert menu, you get to listen to a 19th century overture by Braz...

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  • Length: 58:29
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During the last century a huge number of Western composers took a direction that divorced them from their potential audiences and entrenched them i...

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  • Length: 58:30
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The Newberry Consort has been focusing on Early music from Spain and New Spain (as present day Mexico was known when it was a part of the Spanish e...

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  • Length: 58:29