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Folk Alley
Saturday at 10pm on WPSU2

Folk Alley brings you the best in singer/songwriter, Celtic, traditional bluegrass, American acoustic, and world music.

  • Almotaz Khedrou is one of six Syrian refugees in Colombia. We learn how love allowed him to escape the war-torn country and start a new life as a respected chef in Bogotá.
  • A conversation with Wendy Zukerman from Gimlet's Science Vs podcast about the numbers behind the economics of immigration, plus an excerpt from the podcast.
  • One family in Berkeley, California uses a strange word to describe the way their Jewish and Latino immigrant heritages combine to make something new.
  • Devin Naar's life work is saving a dying language, Ladino. Mostly made up of 15th and 16th-century Spanish, Ladino also incorporates words from Turkish, Greek, Arabic, etc.
  • In the middle of Brooklyn's heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park lies a tiny Mexican church and a small group of children who are growing up curious about their Jewish neighbors.
  • Latino USA visits the Tucson Rodeo, also known as La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros, and follows one family's dreams to turn their 8-year-old kid into a rodeo champion.
  • In 2016, a home that strawberry growers were building in California was set on fire after protests from neighbors. The workers were part of the H-2A agricultural work visa program.
  • Author Shanthi Sekaran talks about being a writer in the age of the Trump administration and researching the conditions of immigrant detention for her book.
  • For his album Prender el Alma, Nicola Cruz collected rare records from shops around the country and mixed those samples with electronic elements plus his own field recordings of traditional music.
  • Downtown Boys, a bilingual punk band from Providence, R.I., is taking punk back to its brown and radical roots with music that directly tackles capitalism and racism.