So difficult to find the essence of what was a whirlwind of a conversation, nearly one hour long, with the magnificent Omar Sosa. Do not miss his May 1 performance at the Mayne Stage with the Afreecanos Quartet!
Fue sumamente difícil resumir de alguna manera la extraordinaria conversación que sostuve con el maestro Omar Sosa. ¡No se pierdan del concierto del 1 de mayo en el Mayne Stage! Promete ser una noche maravillosa.
Find out why Poncho Sanchez thinks his music is like his picadillo! One of the funnest interviews I’ve ever done, what a treat to converse with the master conguero and singer!
¿Por qué dice Poncho Sanchez que su música es como el picadillo que él mismo cocina? Pueden enterarse en la entrevista que le hice, seguramente una de las que pasarán a la historia como las más divertidas que haya hecho. Fue un verdadero placer conversar con el maestro conguero.
Promete ser un gran concierto el del Maestro Chucho Valdés in Orchestra Hall. ¡La primera vez que nos visita en 10 años! Sure to be a wonderful concert by Maestro Chucho Valdés at Symphony Hall. First time Valdés is in the U.S.A. in seven years and first visit to Chicago in ten! A piece published [...]
tomorrow, at Old Town, in concert….the grandson of Peru´s most celebrated novelist, and the son of Peru´s most famous playwright, Gabriel Alegría, who mixes, for example, the festejo – a celebratory afro-peruvian genre and “swing”: as in “Buscando huevito.” Mañana, en Old Town, el nieto del novelista más célebre del Perú e hijo de uno [...]
An amazing set by Grammy-award winning sax player David Sanchez today at the Jazz Showcase, which I found about through the Jazz Institute. Truly magical. I loved the selections from his latest CD, Cultural Survival, especially Ay Bendito (on the player below). Maravillosa actuación por el saxofonista puertorriqueño David Sanchez, hoy por la tarde en [...]
The Winter season of La Peña 2008 will be inaugurated with Chicago´s Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble. Here’s a little Latin Jazz, San Francisco style, to put us in the mood: Rebecca Mauelon´s Peruchineando. Se inaugura hoy la temporada invernal 2008 de La Peña en Old Town School of Folk Music con la actuación del Chicago [...]
Catalina Maria Johnson is a Chicago-based writer, international radio broadcaster and music curator, on the air from Chicago, to Mexico City to Berlin, hosting and and producing the radio program and podcast Beat Latino. As a recognized music curator and tastemaker, she writes a weekly column for HOY (Tribune Media), and contributes to NPR's The Record, Nat Geo Music, Revista Contratiempo, and Gozamos. Catalina also frequently makes appearance on NPR programs such as Alt.Latino, World Cafe and Chicago's WBEZ.
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