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Monday, December 10, 2012

Music Speaks When Words Fail | Cultural connection is through music

Connecting To A Secret Family History Through Music


I stumbled upon this intriguing story published by KPBS and of course I couldn't keep from my Bright Lights.

Linda Machado | Dancer

When Linda Machado was growing up in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, she thought she knew her family history. Her dad was Irish, her mother’s family was Portuguese, from the Azore islands. But as an adult, Machado’s mother, Elvira, revealed a family secret that would complicate Machado’s already multicultural identity. Read Entire story here

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