Latin Roots – Bandwidth http://bandwidth.wamu.org WAMU 88.5's New Music Site Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:23:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 Latin Roots: A Puerto Rican Christmas http://bandwidth.wamu.org/latin-roots-a-puerto-rican-christmas/ http://bandwidth.wamu.org/latin-roots-a-puerto-rican-christmas/#respond Wed, 25 Dec 2013 11:52:00 +0000 http://test.bandwidth.wamu.org/?p=20757 Latin Roots, musician, record producer and writer Rachel Faro compares Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations by region.]]> Musician, record producer and writer Rachel Faro visits World Cafe for part two of this week’s special holiday edition of Latin Roots. During Wednesday’s episode, Faro discusses Christmas celebrations in Puerto Rico and how they differ from the holiday traditions in the Puerto Rican communities of New York. One of the songs she plays, by Willie Colon, is a classic that brings traditional music from the island to the big city.

Listen to Rachel Faro’s essential Puerto Rican Christmas playlist on Spotify.

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