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All times are listed on Pacific Standard Time

WEEK OF JUNE 28, 2010

Voting Rights for Prisoners; Composing El Cancionero; Mexico Edition; Mexico at the Smithsonian: Day One; Voices of the First Mexicans; Mexico at the Smithsonian: Day Two; Smithsonian Folklife Concerts; La Hora Mixteca: Live from Washington, D.C.

MONDAY, JUNE 28.

PROGRAM # 6138 12:00 PM PST

VOTING RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS. This is an election year. But more than 5 million American citizens will not be allowed to vote because of state laws prohibiting people convicted of felonies from voting. These laws disproportionately affect those communities historically lacking government representation: for example, 13% of African American men cannot vote, a rate seven times the national average. This program discusses voter eligibility requirements in many states, the loss of the right to vote of millions, and efforts to remedy this disenfranchisement.

Guests: Myrna Perez, Attorney, The Brennan Center at New York Univiersity, New York City, NY, http://www.brennancenter.org; Andres Idarraga, Ex-convict, Miami, FL; Dr. Gilberto Velez, Chairman of National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Laredo, TX, http://www.nhclc.org

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TUESDAY, JUNE 29.

PROGRAM # 6139 12:00 PM PST

COMPOSING EL CANCIONERO. This fourth program, in a series featuring the life and works of Don Miguel Martínez, showcases some of Martinez' most popular cancion ranchera compositions. He has a live reunion over the telephone from Los Angeles with Martin Becerra, the first voice of Trio Guayacan and Martín y Malena, groups that in the 1940s headlined Mexico's cancionero popular. Martínez also comments on his marriage and musical collaboration with the unforgettable La Torcacita, and his collaborations with popular stars, including Jorge Negrete, La Panchita and La Consentida.

Guests: Miguel Martínez, Pioneer trumpet player from Mexico City, Oakland, CA; Jonathan Clark, Mariachi musician and historian, Livermore, CA; Martín Becerra, Mexican star singer in the 1940s, Retired radio personality, Los Angeles, CA

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.

PROGRAM # 6140 12:00 PM PST

MEXICO EDITION. After the execution of a candidate for governor of the state of Tamaulipas, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón, calls for national unity. In this environment of political confrontation because of the upcoming elections on July 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court liberates the 12 prisoners in the case of Atenco, and the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala, in Oaxaca, continues to be sieged by UBISOR (Unión de Bienestar de la Región Triqui), an organization that has cut off their electricity and is blocking the transportation of food to the community. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the Voz Pública program from Mexico City.

Guests: Sandino Rivero, Attorney for prisoners of San Salvador de Atenco; Marco Albino Ortiz, Representative, Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala in Mexico City.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 1 .

PROGRAM # 6141 12:00 PM.

MEXICO AT THE SMITHSONIAN: DAY ONE. Radio Bilingüe provides special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, which this year commemorates Mexico’s Independence Bicentennial and Revolution Centennial. The festival celebrates the diversity of cultures and living traditions of some of the first Mexican nations. Musicians join the conversation, as well as cornhusk artisans who express the importance of corn, not just for their art, but also for healthy food.

Guests: Olivia Cadaval, Co-curator, México at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington, DC, www.festival.si.edu ; Daniel Sheehy, Director and Curator, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Washington, DC, www.si.edu ; Ramón Gutiérrez, Son jarocho musician, Son de Madera, Veracruz, México; Amalia Salas and Rosalinda Rosas Salas, Cornhusk artisans, Xochimilco, México.

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PROGRAM # 6142 13:00 PM.

VOICES OF THE FIRST MEXICANS. In the second program of the special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, Radio Bilingüe holds conversations with artists from many of the diverse indigenous cultures of Mexico. Among those who are highlighted in this program is a musician from the rock group Hamac Caziim from Sonora, which uses music in Seri language to attract youth back to their culture.

Guests: Rodolfo Palma Rojo, Director of Dissemination, Instituto Nacional de Arte e Historia (INAH), Co-curator, México en el Festival el Foklore del Smithsonian; Israel Robles, Musician in rock group Hamac Caziim, Punta Chueca, Sonora; Marcelina López, President, Consejo Consultivo de la Radio Difusora Cultural Indigena; Dr. Jose Rafael Medina; Felipe Serio Chino, Secretary, Unión Wixarika / Centros Ceremoniales.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 2.

PROGRAM # 6143 12:00 PM

MEXICO AT THE SMITHSONIAN: DAY TWO. On the second day of Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, this edition includes conversations with artists from diverse indigenous cultures of Mexico. This program includes an interview with Los Cardencheros de Sapioriz, the last musical group to sing canto cardenche, a typical musical genre unique in all of Mexico, from the region of the Comarca Lagunera. The program also includes a conversation with mezcal makers, who talk about the traditional process of making the drink, and its different uses.

Guests: Juan Francisco Cázares, Encargado, Coordinación de la Direccion General de Culturas Populares, Mexico; Jose Guadalupe Salazar, Antonio Valles, Fidel Elizalde, Genaro Chavarría, Singers, Los Cardencheros de Sapioriz, Ejido Sapioriz, Municipio de Lerdo, Durango, Mexico; Julia Gutierrez Santiago y Cutberto Santiago, mezcal producers, and Sergio Inurrigaro, President, Asociación Pro Cultura del Mezcal, Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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PROGRAM # 6144 13:00 PM.

MEXICO AT THE SMITHSONIAN: SHARING CULTURES. This edition of Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, includes conveersations with makers of traditional textiles of Oaxaca, a dancer and a bead artisan from the state of Morelos, and a family of tequila-makers from Amatitán, Jalisco.

Guests: María Sosa, Joel Vicente y Marcelina Vicente, Textile artisants, Teotitlán de Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico; Alma Delia Reyes, Dancer, Atlatlahucan, Morelos, Mexico; Edmundo Saul Jahen, artesano que trabaja la chaquira, Chinelos de Morelos, Mexico; Javier Jiménez, Claudio Jiménez, and Javier Jiménez Jr., family of tequila-makers, “El Caballito Cerrero”, Amatitán, Jalisco, Mexico.

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SATURDAY, JULY 3.

PROGRAM # 6145 12:00 PM

SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE CONCERT: CARDENCHEROS. On this, the third day of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, Radio Bilingüe broadcasts four hours of musical concerts recorded live at the National Mall. This first hour highlights Los Cardencheros de Sapioriz, who are keeping alive a dramatic and powerful musical tradition known as canción cardenche, sung a capella by farmworkers in only one city in the northern Comarca Lagunera region. Even in Mexico, few people know about canción cardenche, now broadcast nationwide by Radio Bilingüe.

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PROGRAM # 6146 13:00 PM.

SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE CONCERT: HAMAAC CAZÍIM. The second concert broadcast as part of Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, presents the group Hamaac Cazíim, from the Comcáac community on the Gulf of California in Sonora, who perform rock music with traditional lyrics sung in the Seri language. The goal is to engage members of the younger generation in the history and culture of their own people.

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PROGRAM # 6147 14:00 PM

SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE CONCERT: ENCUENTRO DEL SON. This third hour of concerts broadcast from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, is a celebration of three different tradition of son in Mexico, harp ensemble music from the flat hotlands of Tierra Caliente in Michoacán, and son de Jalisco, played by Los Verdaderos Caporales de Apatzingán, and son jarocho from Veracruz, played by Son de Madera Trio.

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PROGRAM # 6148 15:00 PM.

SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE CONCERT: LOS TÍOS. This fourth concert in Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, presents the Mariachi Tradicional Los Tíos from El Manguito, a remote community in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of Jalisco, who boast a son repertoire distinctive to this region where mariachi music has flourished for more than 150 years.

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SUNDAY, JULY 4.

PROGRAM # 6149 12:00 PM

LA HORA MIXTECA: LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.As part of Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Filemón López, host of La Hora Mixteca, broadcasts live from the nation’s capital. This program, in Mixtec and Spanish, reaches audiences across the border in simulcast with XETLA: “ La Voz de la Mixteca” in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, and other bilingual stations. In this hour, López interviews a dancer and musician from the Chinelos, carnivalesque dance troupes that mock the Spanish colonizers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a traditional candy-maker and a farmer from Xochimilco, where the ancient tradition of raised fields, or chinampas, separated by canals, is still alive, and a maker of mezcal, the traditional agave drink from Oaxaca.

Guests: Luis Granados de la Rosa, Dancer, and Antonio Pérez, Musician, Chinelos de Atlatlahuacan, Morelos, México; Alfredo Ortega, Candy-maker, Xochimilco, México; José Genovevo Pérez Espinosa, Chinampa farmer, Xochimilco, México; Cutberto Santiago Sernas, Mezcal maker, Santiago Matatlán, Tlacolula, Oaxaca, México.

PROGRAM # 6150 13:00 PM.

LA HORA MIXTECA: LIVE FROM THE CAPITAL. Filemón López, host of La Hora Mixteca, continues to broadcast live from the nation’s capital as part of Radio Bilingüe’s special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. López explores arts and music from diverse indigenous communities of Oaxaca and other parts of Mexico, interviewing a musician from the southern coastal region of Oaxaca, who combines indigenous, African, and Spanish elements in his sones and chilenas, a wool weaver who continues a centuries-old family tradition of designing and weaving rugs with traditional Zapotec patterns, and an artisan who makes dolls out of corn-husks. This special edition of La Hora Mixteca also celebrates the 30th anniversary of Radio Bilingüe’s public broadcast service.

Guests: Primitivo Efrén Mayrén Santos, Director, Musician, and Singer, Grupo de Fandango de Artesa Los Quilamos, Oaxaca, México; Amalia Salas, Corn-husk artisan, Xochimilco, México; Joel Vicente Contreras, Wool weaver, Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, México; Alfredo Ortega, Candy-maker, Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Xochimilco, México.

Funds for Línea Abierta are provided in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Endowment, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.