On the Road Again

Este ano, Radio Bilingue esta celebrando 25 años de Noticiero Latino y 15 años de Línea Abierta! The first and only Spanish-language network news service for U.S. public radio, Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta team went on the road again to provide a special, ten-hour coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, which this year marks Mexico’s Independence Bicentennial and Revolution Centennial.  The hosts of the series are Graciela “Chelis” López of the weekday talk show Línea Abierta and Filemón López, host of the weekly La Hora Mixteca.  Eva Hernández will also be joining La Hora Mixteca in simulcast from XETLA, La Voz de la Mixteca, in Tlaxiaco, in the Mexican highlands. The team will bring to the national airwaves and online streaming the music and voices of grassroots artists from diverse indigenous Mexican communities, including Comcaac musicians from Sonora, jaraneros performing son jarocho from Veracruz, traditional mariacheros from Jalisco, among many others. Radio Bilingüe will also include the stories from practitioners of ancient indigenous traditions like farming, crafts, foodways, and much more.

Radio Bilingüe is producing this special project in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. Additional collaborations include community stations WRTE-FM, Radio Arte in Chicago, KPOO-FM in San Francisco, CA, and XETLA in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Funders of this special broadcast are the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The James Irvine Foundation and The Ford Foundation.