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Hosts William Hosea and Roberta Radovich speak with Mezzo-Soprano and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music voice professor, Marietta Simpson, about her latest music project, Crooked Stick. During this hour Marietta discusses her upbringing and her career as a classical singer and why she has chosen to sing in this project negro spirituals within different musical genres, like blues and soul, to give them in a more contemporary sound.
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Tonight’s broadcast is a re-broadcast of two interviews in honor of Women’s History Month:
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PART ONE: Host Clarence Boone speaks with eminent bachata artist Martires De Leon, the leader of the DREAM Bachata Academy, and Ben de Menil, its musical director, who also acts as De Leon’s translator. DREAM stands for Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring, a music academy that teaches its young musicians bachata, a genre of Latin American music originating from the Dominican Republic in the mid-20th Century. Bachata incorporates Indigenous, African and European musical elements. De Leon and his fellow artists will be performing Tuesday, March 5, and Wednesday, March 6, at the Lotus Firebay venue, located at 105 S. Rogers Street.
PART TWO: Host Clarence Boone then interviews David Hummons, the 2019 City of Bloomington Black History Month’s Living Legend Award Winner.
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PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich speak with Wes Martin, News Director for WFHB, about State Senate Bill 12. This is a hate crimes bill, in which Republicans removed all references to race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation and other protected classes, on February 19, 2019.
PART TWO: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich review with Shatoyia Moss and James Sanders the 91st Academy Awards where there were many historic firsts for African Americans.
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