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This week’s Beat Latino takes a paseo to check out Latinx folk music at the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
From Panama/KC’s Making Movies to Tejano legends Flaco Jimenez and the Texmaniacs to Nicaragua’s folkoric rock from Elena y los Fulanos to Ecuadorian rocking guitarist Eljuri to Mireya Ramos from Mariachi Flor de Toloache, I had a chance to experience a wonderful array of folk sounds that we can begin to consider nuevo folk and an integral and important part of the music of the United States.
Includes part of a conversation with Kansas City’s own Making Movies. Check it out!
Feature photo: Los Texmaniacs by Catalina Maria Johnson
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morena, morenita (Dark Woman, Little Dark Woman) | Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca | Flaco and Max: Legends & Legacies. | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 2014 | 03:21 |
| Los barandales del puente (The Railings of the Bridge) [Canción Mexicana] | Los Texmaniacs | Texas Towns & TexMex sounds. | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 2012 | 02:59 |
| Morena | Radio free Honduras | Radio free Honduras. | Radio free Honduras | 2014 | 03:34 |
| Clandestino | Making movies | Clandestino. | 3/2 Records | 2017 | 04:06 |
| Making movies interview | Making movies | Making movies interview. | Making movies interview | 2018 | 09:19 |
| De paisano a paisano | Making movies | De paisano a paisano. | 3/2 Records | 2017 | 04:09 |
| Cucurrucucú paloma | Mariachi flor de toloache | Mariachi flor de toloache. | Mariachi flor de toloache | 2014 | 06:29 |
| Sabes muy bien | Boogat | Sabes muy bien. | Maisonnette | 2017 | 03:52 |
| El Llano | Cuñao | Sangre y arena. | Ides of March Records | 2015 | 04:06 |
| Morir bailando | Elena & los fulanos | Volcán. | Elena & los fulanos | 2017 | 04:06 |
| Mas fuerte | Eljuri | Fuerte. | Manovill Records | 2012 | 03:45 |
| A change is gonna come | Villalobos brothers | Aliens of extraordinary ability. | Villalobos brothers | 2012 | 03:32 |