PDN News Reports: Port Townsend: Fiddle Tunes Festival features national treasure of Mexico

[Jack Olmsted]

JENNIFER JACKSON
July 2, 2009

PORT TOWNSEND -- Each year, Juan Reynoso travels thousands of miles from his home in Mexico to Port Townsend for one reason: to keep his music alive.

Reynoso, 90, is a national treasure of Mexico and a human repository of more than 1,000 sones and gustos, the folk music of his native Tierra Caliente, an isolated area of southwest Mexico.

Ironically, Reynoso's music only started to be appreciated in his own country after he was discovered by music lovers in the United States. (Read More)

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