Thursday is Mother’s Day in Mexico and a few other Latin American countries. As Betto Arcos tells us, it’s a night when thousands of musicians take to the streets to serenade their mothers. And what do they play? Boleros.
Pasatono Orquesta is a musical group from Mexico that plays traditional music from the Mixtec region of Oaxaca.
Volonté fuses her love of tango with the blues on her new album and is in the midst of a world tour titled “The Blue Tango Tour.”
Betto Arcos talks about some of his favorite tunes from the 2-disc set “El Gusto – 40 Años de son Huasteco.”
Reporter Betto Arcos shares with us Christmas tunes he grew up singing and listening to as a child growing up in Veracruz, Mexico.
Reporter Betto Arcos tells us about two different singers of Inuit ancestry, Elisapie Isaac from northern Quebec and Simon Lynge from Greenland.
Francisca Valenzuela was the only singer from Chile invited on stage to sing with U2 at the band’s March concert there. So who is she? Reporter Betto Arcos introduces us to her.
