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Sin Fronteras, a traditional Latin American musical group
Interview: The members of Sin Fronteras tell us about their music and history as well as ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2015
- Length: 28:06
- Purchases: 2
The monumental book by Miguel de Cervantes, the first novel in European literature, has captured the imagination of composers from different period...
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- Length: 58:29
Contemporary and bluesy attitudes stand up well to good old funky Crusaders music. Dave Brubeck hosts Michael Brecker as Bill Evans to Stan Getz. F...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 4
Abel Carlevaro is known worldwide as one of the top masters of the guitar in the second part of the 20th century. However, few people outside Rio d...
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- Length: 58:29
Chocolate and bacon, watermelon and vinegar, soda and wine — all combinations that shouldn't necessarily work, but do.
This week on Alt.Latino, we...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Hear a track by Chilean singer Camila Moreno... a brilliant guitarist, as well as a fantastic lyricist who sings skillfully about politics, love an...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 3
As one of the jewels of the Spanish empire, the island of Cuba developed strong cultural traditions. Havana and other towns boasted of a very rich ...
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- Length: 58:29
This week, Elbio invites you to a Fiesta of the Guitar, celebrating a wide range of Latin-American guitar music. We explore the thriving crossover...
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- Length: 58:30
This week, we've invited music teacher Dinorah Marquez to the show. Eleven years ago, she started the Latino Arts: Strings program in Milwaukee. Th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 5
It's such a pleasure to have two groundbreaking Latinos on the show. Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist, best known for being the author...
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
On this show, we explore the elusive word Saudade. It has many definitions, including a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not ev...
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
Let's start the year right! NPR's Otis Hart stops by to spin some hot new Latin electronic dance music.
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Several thousand years ago the forebears of the present day Gypsy people left India. Their descendents have spread throughout the world and their c...
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- Length: 58:29
Sarah and Ellie take us on an adventure through the life of the director of Seattle’s All City Band, and then journey into the struggles of a stude...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 15:08
Johnny Pacheco, Ana Cristina Reymundo, and Marisol Berrios-Miranda remember this breakthrough 1974 album, selected for the National Recording Regis...
Bought by Radio Newark, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious visits with Cuban born singer-songwriter Marcos Pereda, who now lives in Ukiah, California. Pereda shares songs and stories about hi...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 29:01
For our holiday special we turn to the healing and uplifting power of the human voice with the Washington, D.C.-based group, Cantigas. The group's ...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WART FM, and WKAR
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Listeners chime in with their own favorites, including Chicano Batman and Helado Negro.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
We get so much fantastic music that a lot ends up getting cut out. This week, we share some of the artists we feel we neglected unfairly in 2014.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
As 2014 begins to wind to a close, Alt.Latino is spending this week looking back at our favorite artists of the year. It's an unusually varied list...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
For this year's Thanksgiving mix, we bring you music — like rapper Azealia Banks' playful Spanish-language turn — that will help you dance and dige...
Bought by WART FM, KBBI Alaska, and WKAR
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas recently returned from Womex 2014, an international world music festival with a bag of musical goodies that are anything ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
We invited Billboard's Judy Cantor-Navas to help us pick out some nominated artists who make great music and deserve the spotlight the 15th annual ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
You may think Chicago’s Esso is just about having a good time and getting people on their feet. That’s partially true. But beneath the Latin rhythm...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 57:10
Kansas City rock band Making Movies is always on the move, both musically - combining Latin rhythms and grooves with indie rock arrangements - and ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 57:07
