Theater groups from throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico are coming together in old downtown Los Angeles for a month-long festival. Announced as the largest gathering of Latino/a theater in over 25 years, the national festival brings together 150 artists, including Pulitzer Prize winners, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Guest: José Luis Valenzuela, Founding Member and Artistic Director, Latino Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA, www.thelatc.org
Honoring Nati Cano. A tribute to fallen master and mariachi music pioneer in the United States, Natividad “Nati” Cano, founder of Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, a culturally-influential ensemble with over fifty-years of tradition, winner in 2009 of the Grammy Award for the Best Regional Mexican Album. The National Endowment for the Arts recognized Nati Cano with the National Heritage Fellowship, the highest award in the nation for traditional arts.
Guests: Chuy Guzman, Musical Director, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Los Angeles, CA, https://www.facebook.com/camperosdenaticano/info?ref=page_internal ; Daniel Sheehy, Director and Curator, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Washington, DC, www.folkways.si.edu
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