June 30, 2011

Radio Bilingüe launches new website with focus on the Smithsonian’s Colombia festival

Radio Bilingüe announces the launch of an interactive web platform on its website www.radiobilingue.org to expand its special coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s program at the National Mall entitled Colombia: The Nature of Culture.

The new web platform was designed to improve the listener experience by providing updates on the festival. The site includes descriptions, photos and links on the Colombian artists and performers. Visitors can also listen to the live stream of the radio service and listen to the program archives and podcast service. In addition, an interactive blog page shares stories and voices from the festival and encourages visitors to participate with opinions.

Beginning today, listeners will be able to visit the site www.radiobilingue.org and find information about its radio programs and the Colombia: The Nature of Culture festival.

From Thursday, July 7 ^th through Sunday, July 10 ^th Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta team broadcast and webcast ten hours of music, voices and stories from Colombian artists and performers who represent diverse cultural traditions and musical expressions, from the drums and maracas of the Afro-Colombian coastal music to the harp and cuatros of the Eastern plains to the guitars and flutes of the Andean Highlands.

The radio and online series is in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, as well as WRTE-FM in Chicago and KPOO-FM in San Francisco, CA.

Línea Abierta , the first and only national Spanish-language talk show in U.S. public radio. Airing on 70 stations around the U.S. and Mexico, this is the flagship program of Radio Bilingüe, a network of six stations in California and six additional stations under construction in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Radio Bilingüe celebrates this week 31 years of community broadcast service.

This project is possible thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation.

For more information, contact María de Jesús Gómez at 559-455-5782, chuyag@radiobilingue.org.