Fri. 8/23 10a: It's three days of classes, lectures, films, concerts and dance parties celebrating salsa, bachata, merengue, cha cha and more. The 4th annual Albuquerque Latin Dance Festival takes place all over the city from August 23 through August 25. The Festival's centerpiece is a concert and dance party on August 24 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Spencer Beckwith talks with the Executive Director of the Festival, James Foley.
Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.