s2e28 Grammy nominee Caroline Cabading, a Radio Drama, and Tributes to Beloved Friends | Listen & Be Heard Podcast
Featuring Caroline Cabading’s Sugilanon, Ava Chin, and YaShara Lynch
SHOW NOTES
s2e28
September 12, 2024
Martha talks with Caroline Cabading, about her Grammy nominated CD, Sugilanon, an epic family journey. We remember Matthew Finch with a live radio drama by Ava Chin, from the L&BH Archives. YaShara Lynch sings at Versers of Color in memory of Crystal Cauley, and we persist in our resistance of book-banning.
HOST: Martha Cinader. GUESTS: Caroline Cabading, Ava Chin, YaShara Lynch. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.
GUESTS
Caroline Cabading
Vocalist, Percussionist, Composer, Educator
Caroline Cabading, a 4th-generation San Franciscan, is an actively performing jazz and R&B vocalist, indigenous Philippine percussionist, composer and traditional arts educator with over 20 years experience performing, touring and teaching. She has been commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) the California Arts Council (2018, 2020, 2022), Zoo Labs (2021) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (2022) to compose original music contributing to the Filipino-American jazz genre and she has been funded by the California Arts Council (2018, 2020, 2022) and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (2021, 2022) to teach and present pre-colonial Philippine music to the local San Francisco Bay Area community.
Ava Chin
“The House of Miniature Toys”
Written, directed and narrated by Ava Chin, produced by Martha Cinader, engineering and foley by Matthew Finch
AVA CHIN, a 5th generation Chinese American New Yorker, is the author of the narrative nonfiction book MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023), an intimate portrayal of the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act laws (1882-1943) on four generations of her family as they attempted to lay down roots in America.
FEATURING
YaShara Lynch
Song for Crystal Cauley
YaShara performs Song for Crystal Cauley at Poetic Versers of Color Open Mic at the Shakedown Kava Lounge in Hendersonville, NC.
REMEMBRANCE
Matthew Finch
Music Director, KUNM Radio, Albuquerque, NM
Producer, Musicologist
Matthew Finch was a creative force with a deep and inclusive music knowledge, passion for giving local acts a platform, and a kind heart. Born in New York City, he was a long-time producer at WBAI 99.5fm. In 2003 he moved with his family to New Mexico as the music director at KUNM. Matthew passed unexpectedly on July 28, 2024 at the age of 64 from natural causes and he went peacefully, “in the arms of his family and two dogs.”
Matthew was a creative force with a deep and inclusive music knowledge, passion for giving local acts a platform, and a kind heart.
Crystal Cauley
Poet, Activist
Crystal Cauley (1980-2024) was the founder of the Black History Collective of Henderson County, and Black Business Network of WNC. She was a host of The Versers of Color open mic. She served on Hendersonville’s Historic Preservation Commission and on many other community boards and was a tireless advocate for her community.
Joe R. Talaugon Sr.
Author
Joe Talaugon was a 93-year-old gentleman who lived in the Central Coast of California. Joe was a member of the Santa Ynez Chumash Indian Tribe and his wife Margie is of Filipino descent, as her parents immigrated from the Philippines in the 1920s. Joe and Margie became activists in the community in the late 1960s, as they realized at that time much of the injustices presented in the civil rights movement were exactly what they personally faced during their younger years and to date. Joe and his family initiated and participated in many community activities and conferences addressing the racial and economic issues of today.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Ava Chin – Mott Street
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her…
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Joe R. Talaugon Sr. – Mestizo Through My Eyes
This book is about a man who grew up during a time when life in California was very hard, even though as a child he had no clue of the struggles his father and mother were going through. All he knew at that time was that he lived in an old house somewhere out on a farm…
VIDEOS
Caroline Cabading & The Autonomous Region perform Sugilanon at USAAF 2022
Matthew Finch featured on “Crossover Media”
Ava Chin performing at House of SpeakEasy at Joe’s Pub
SUBMISSIONS
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EVENTS
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BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
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Ongoing discussion
Climate Resilience with Laura Lengnick & Meredith Leigh
Climate change is the concern of every writer because it is the concern of every person. Every season, we meet with Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh and friends to discuss everything related to agricultural and climate resilience.
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