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As the nation celebrates its independence, Radio Bilingüe will broadcast performances from Las Américas, the Latino music component of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival that begins June 24 through July 5 in Washington, D.C. with extraordinary folk artists who represent some of the best musical traditions from the U.S. and Latin America.

Radio Bilingüe, now in its third year of broadcasting the Latino music festival, will cover the first half of the two-week run June 24-29 broadcasting and webcasting the programs at 3 PM and 5 PM EDT. Additional online platforms will include podcast, audio on demand archives, news text and photos.

Artists represent emblematic musical styles in the United States and throughout the Americas including -

• Puerto Rican bomba, plena, and jíbaro music,

• Mexican son music, mariachi music,

• Colombian vallenato, joropo, and currulao,

• Dominican merengue típico, bachata, and salve,

• Chilean cueca, tonada, and nueva canción,

• Venezuelan música llanera,

• Paraguayan polca,

• Guatemalan marimba, and

• Salvadoran chanchona music.

Chelis Lopez, a long-time cultural arts promoter and on-air personality in San Francisco, will host the series. The special coverage is in collaboration with WLCH Radio Centro in Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania.

Available via Content Depot, Satellite or online stream.

Webcasting, podcast, audio on demand archives, news text and photos are available at www.radiobilingue.org.

Two Grains of Sand

Funded by Listener Support

The crunch is on. Nature and humanity are both running off the rails and governments stand seemingly helpless before the juggernaut. But all is not lost. Into the breach are stepping new players, inventing strategies to transform the way we do things on many levels at once. And they’re forging surprising alliances in the process. In this program we’ll hear about two initiatives that seek to move the needle on issues of increasing urgency, one by influencing governmental policies on climate change, the other by changing corporate practices in the global tea industry.  LISTEN

Guests:

• Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org; environmental journalist; author, Deep Economy

• Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance

• Michiel Leijnse, Global Brand Manager, Lipton Tea (division of Unilever)

A World of Possibilities is an award-winning one-hour weekly public affairs program. Each week, host Mark Sommer talks with social innovators, leading policy analysts and big-picture thinkers on key national and global issues. The program currently airs in 41 states and six Canadian provinces as well as several other countries. Podcasts and other downloads average 125,000 a month.

In 2006, the United Nations awarded A World of Possibilities a Silver Medal “for outstanding achievement in international radio programming that best reflects the global concerns of the United Nations.” The program has also won six awards from the New York Festivals.

A World of Possibilities segments are underwritten variously by many of the country’s largest foundations-Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett, Packard, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Merck Family Fund-as well as by listener contributions.

LENGTH: 55 minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, MP3, The Content Depot, via Podcast, as well as selected episodes available on MP2 at PRX

BIONEERS: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature has won two Communicator Awards of Distinction at the 15th Annual Communicator Awards.

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for Communications Professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards received over 9,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.  The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement.

BIONEERS won the Communicator Award of Distinction for the following programs:

1. Beyond the Bar Code: Local Food Revolution
2. Toxic Trespassing: Inside Story of the Love Canal Uprising

BIONEERS: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature is an award-winning series of half-hours promoting practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Since 1990, the Bioneers organization has held annual scientific conferences based on the premise that we are moving from the Information Age to the Biology Age, in which environmental issues will shape all others. The Bioneers radio showsfeature the leading scientific and social innovators of our time bringing all the drama and optimism of these conferences to life. 15 new shows yearly plus 91 archived.

LENGTH: 28:30
AVAILABLE: FTP; Content Depot; CDs
COST: FREE
LISTEN: 2008 Series

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy, Brandweek, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo! To learn more about the IAVA please visit www.iavisarts.org.

SIRIUS XM Radio launched Footlight Parade (known as On the Aisle on SIRIUS XM), with host Bill Rudman, on the On Broadway channel. Each week, Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) will feature a theme that ties together performers, songs and lively commentary. SIRIUS and XM listeners will hear a mix of show tune hits related to specific themes, such as “Making an Entrance;” “1950 on Stage and Screen;” “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – The Social Conscience of the American Musical;” “Charmed;” and “Strike Up the Band: Broadway Overtures.”

Footlight Parade (aka On the Aisle) is produced by The Musical Theater Project, a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to celebrate the stage and screen musical as a great American art form. Rudman founded the organization in 2000.

WHEN: Saturday at 3 pm ET and rebroadcast on Tuesday at 9 pm ET
WHERE: On Broadway, SIRIUS channel 77 and XM channel 75

Broadcast on more than 75 stations nationwide, host Bill Rudman’s Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical is a weekly radio program showcasing the best of Broadway and Hollywood – songs from the turn of the 20th century to today.

Perfect for  Black AIDS Awareness Day (February 7th), LiveHopeLove is a one hour special that looks at the universal problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS, through the specific lens of Jamaica, where almost no one is unaffected by the disease. What are the unique realities of this small island nation that set its HIV/AIDS sufferers apart from those in the rest of the world? Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine how the disease has shaped their lives. Dawes’ poems, inspired by their stories, take this documentary into deep realms of the heart.

LENGTH: 59 minutes, AVAILABLE: Exclusively on PRX