FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 28, 2011
Radio Bilingüe launches new website with focus on the Smithsonian’s Colombia festival
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adio Bilingüe announces the launch of an interactive web platform on its website www.radiobilingue.org to expand its special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s program at the National Mall entitled Colombia: The Nature of Culture.
The new web platform was designed to improve the listener experience by providing updates on the festival. The site includes descriptions, photos and links on the Colombian artists and performers. Visitors can also listen to the live 
stream of the radio service and listen to the program archives and podcast service. In addition, an interactive blog page shares stories and voices from the festival and encourages visitors to participate with opinions.
Beginning today, listeners will be able to visit the site www.radiobilingue.org and find information about its radio programs and the Colombia: The Nature of Culture festival.
From Thursday, July 7th through Sunday, July 10th Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta team broadcast and webcast ten hours of music, voices and stories from 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 cuatrosof the Eastern plains to the guitars and flutes of the Andean Highlands.
The radio and online series is in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, as well as WRTE-FM in Chicago and KPOO-FM in San Francisco, CA.
Línea Abierta, the first and only national Spanish-language talk show in U.S. public radio. Airing on 70 stations around the U.S. and Mexico, this is the flagship program of Radio Bilingüe, a network of six stations in California and six additional stations under construction in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Radio Bilingüe celebrates this week 31 years of community broadcast service.
This project is possible thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.
For more information, contact María de Jesús Gómez at 559-455-5782, chuyag@radiobilingue.org.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2011
From the National Mall, Radio Bilingüe broadcasts the festival Colombia: The Nature of Culture.
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.
The radio and online series is in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, as well as WRTE-FM in Chicago and KPOO-FM in San Francisco, CA.
Hosted by Chelis López, the regular host of Línea Abierta, the special series go on the air and online on Línea Abierta, the first and only national Spanish-language talk show in U.S. public radio. Airing on 70 stations around the U.S. and Mexico, this is the flagship program of Radio Bilingüe, a network of six stations in California and six additional stations under construction in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
This project is possible thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.
For more information, contact María de Jesús Gómez at 559-455-5782, chuyag@radiobilingue.org.
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
TO: ALL PUBLIC RADIO
STATIONS / GENERAL MANAGERS
FM: RADIO BILINGUE /
SAMUEL OROZCO
DT: JUNE 14, 2011
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: For the sixth summer season, Radio Bilingüe’s
Línea Abierta team goes to Washington, DC’s National Mall to bring to the
national airwaves and the worldwide web the festive sounds of the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival.
This year, the
festival features a program highlighting some of the best cultural traditions
of Colombia, including basket and cloth weaving from the Andean Highlands,
leather crafts from ranches in the Orinoco Plains, and performances from
community rituals and celebrations in the Momposino Flood Plains.
The program, entitled Colombia:
The Nature of Culture, will feature Colombian artists and performers
who represent unique cultural traditions from the Andean Highlands, the Amazon Tropical
Rainforest, the Pacific Rainforest, the Southeastern Plains, the coffee lands
of Caldas, and from the cities of Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín.
Radio Bilingüe will
broadcast ten hours of musical concerts combined with interviews with artists,
performers, and festival organizers.
The following regional
musical traditions are planned for broadcast:
-Tambora,
dance and singing with percussions from the Mompóx region,
-Chirimía
music from the Colombian Pacific Coast,
-Ceremonial
performances from the Amazon,
-Cantadoras
de alabados, Afro-Colombian music from Chocó
-Carranguera
music from the Andean villages,
-Bandola
music from the coffee heartlands,
-Llanera
music from the plains of Eastern Colombia.
TIMES:
Thursday, July 7th,
3 PM – 5 PM Eastern Time, talk shows on Línea Abierta
Friday, July 8th,
3 PM – 5 PM Eastern Time, talk shows and music concert
Saturday, July 9th,
5 PM – 8 PM ET, Three hours of musical concerts
Sunday, July 10th,
5 PM – 8 PM ET, Three hours of musical concerts
TECHNICAL: The special programs will air live and tape-delayed on a timely basis
via Satélite Radio Bilingüe. The specials will also be available online via
webcast, podcast and audio-on-demand archives on Radio Bilingüe’s website: www.radiobilingue.org. The series will also be available on the
PRSS’s Content Depot.
PRODUCERS: Radio Bilingüe is producing this series in partnership with the
Smithsonian Institution. Additional collaborations include community stations
WRTE-FM in Chicago, and KPOO-FM in San Francisco, CA.
FUNDORS: The National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, The James Irvine Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
For more information,
contact María de Jesús Gómez at chuyag@radiobilingue.org, or 559-455-5782.
