Friday, February 5, 2010
Smithsonian Folkways artists win GRAMMY award
Smithsonian Folkways Recording artists Los Texmaniacs received a GRAMMY award for their album Borders y Bailes in the Tejano Album category. This is the group’s first GRAMMY win. The Texas-Mexican conjunto band, armed "with an assortment of Tex-Mex beats infectious enough to get even the most sedentary crowd moving" (Washington Post), produced an album that breathes new life into the century-old music of the Texas Rio Grande Valley. Congratulations to Los Texmaniacs, and everyone at Smithsonian Folkways. Explore more Smithsonian Folkways artists, and discover the story behind the fabled label and its legendary founder Moses Asch through Spark Media's documentary Worlds of Sound: The Ballad of Folkways.
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