A cultural organization invites well-known maestros of the traditional music of the Gulf Coast of Mexico to Northern California and takes them out to the street corners to share their music with day laborers as they wait for work. At the end of this experience, musicians from Veracruz and from California collaborate to collectively create new songs, in the son jarocho style, that sing of the reality of day laborers. Fernando Andrés Torres went to an Urban Fandango, where musicians shared their new verses. This feature story is part of the series Raices: Stories About Grassroots Artists.

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