Some of the
best sounds of traditional Colombian music will be heard at the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. this summer as part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and
Radio Bilingüe is making sure listeners all over the nation and the world join
in the celebration.
Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta team goes to the nation’s capital to broadcast and webcast ten hours of music, voices and stories from practitioners of cultural traditions from Colombia’s heartlands.
The program, entitled Colombia: The Nature of Culture,
will feature Colombian artists and performers who represent diverse cultural traditions and musical expressions, from the drums and maracas of the Afro-Colombian coastal music to the harp and cuatros of the Eastern plains to the guitars and flutes of the Interior, the Andean Highlands.
The series will premiere the week of the Independence Day festivities. It will run from Thursday, July 7th through Sunday, July 10th. A repeat of the series will be scheduled for September and October, to mark the celebration of National Latino Heritage Month.
Funds for this project are provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation, and The James Irvine Foundation.
