Quetzal & Meklit
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 5: Special Events / 5.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 02
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0702_Ralph_Rinzler_Concert_Stage_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Dan Sheehy (presenter); Meklit; Martha Gonzales; Tylana Enomoto; Evan Greer; Alberto Lopez; Juan Perez; Ramon Guiterez (participants) Enjoy the underground sounds of California's largest cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Quetzal is a GRAMMY Award-winning Smithsonian Folkways "Chican@ rock group" rooted in the complex cultural currents of barrio life, its social activism, its strong feminist stance, and its rock 'n' roll beginnings. They creatively combine shades of East L.A.'s soundscape, traditional son jarocho of Veracruz, salsa, R&B, and more to express the political and social struggle for self-determination and self-representation. Their next album on Smithsonian Folkways will be released later this year. San Francisco-based singer and activist Meklit will join Quetzal on stage, adding her own blend of North American and Ethiopian jazz with folk, hip-hop, and art rock. She describes her music as emanating from "in-between spaces" and reflecting her three "sonic homelands" of Addis Ababa, Brooklyn, and the Bay Area.