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Broadcast hosts: Samuel Orozco, host and founding executive producer of Línea Abierta, and Wanda Colón Cortés, host of the weekly Línea Abierta desde Puerto Rico from WRTU, San Juan. The radio series is a collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and WRTU, Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico. Nuestra Música, Music in Latino Culture is a four-year program of the Smithsonian Folklife Fesitval. The focus in 2005, the program's second year, is Music Builds Community. This is a project of The Smithsonian Institute, the largest museum complex in the world that holds the cultural heritage of the American people. Línea Abierta is the first and only Spanish language national talk show in U.S. public radio and airs on 44 stations in the United States, and Puerto Rico and 20 stations in Mexico. This is the flagship program of Radio Bilingüe, a network of five stations with headquarters in Fresno and San Francisco, CA. Through its satellite service, Satélite Radio Bilingüe, the non-profit organization distributes news, information, and musical programming to radio affiliates throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico. For more information, contact: Linda Traynor, ltraynor@radiobilingue.org, 559-455-5753 Acknowledgements Funds were provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Photos: Smithsonian Folklife Festival Radio Bilingüe |