Celebrating Lalo Guerrero
Featured on the December 16th, 2016 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- This Christmas Eve would have been the 100th birthday of Arizona music legend Lalo Guerrero, known around the world as the father of Chicano music. Using excerpts from her own exclusive interviews and concert recordings, AZPM's Nancy Montoya looks back at Lalo Guerrero's colorful career, and the affection he always expressed for his hometown of Tucson...
- Do you love your local library? The Pima County Public Library is asking for writers of all ages and backgrounds to share their feelings in a letter, and Arizona Spotlight features the radio debut of those letters as read by the writers themselves.
Love Letters to My Library is a collaborative project between Pima County Public Library and Rachel Miller of "Love Letters to Tucson". You can submit your own "Love Letter" to library.news@pima.gov.
- Author and wildlife illustrator Beth Surdut shares her observations of "Pancho & Lefty", a pair of Great Horned Owls who taught her about the secrets of feathered predators who fly by night...
- And, film essayist Chris Dashiell considers the Hollywood "star system", and compares contemporary film actors with legends about the classic movie stars of the past...
ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs every Friday at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm and every Saturday at 5:00 pm on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.
