Flawn Williams, who works with NPR, sent me the following information about a radio program that will be broadcast this Friday morning, March 25. It sounds pretty neat to me, and it fits here because Flawn mentioned bodhrans :-). Flawn says I can share it here:

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Next Friday, March 25, NPR's Morning Edition will feature another one of our4 "Radio Expeditions" reports which are coproduced with National Geographic.

In this latest one, John Burnett takes a look/listen at the Easter Week celebrations of the Tarahumara indigenous communities in the Sierra Madre uplands of Chihuahua Mexico.


I did the field recording (last Easter!) and sound design for this story. I think you'll enjoy it if you like:

    --a VERY different evolution of the Easter story
    --interesting cultural traditions linked to the seasons
    --stories about drinking and/or home brewing
    --bodhran conventions
    --old time fiddling of Easter tunes from the WAY southern mountains

I also manage to make an uncredited appearance in the piece....listen carefully!

The story will air at 5:40, 7:40, and 9:40am Eastern. Consult your local station listings for when it carries Morning Edition. In DC, WAMU carries all three feeds, but WETA only the 7:40am.

The audio report, plus some pix and video, should also be available for streaming starting later that day on npr.org:

http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1023

Happy listening!
--Flawn