Global Notes: Latin Alternative Music Fest

Cultura Profética
Cultura Profética, a Puerto Rican reggae band, performing in Mexico in 2013. The band is a headliner at RuidoFest 2017 in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. José Miguel Rosas / Flickr
Cultura Profética
Cultura Profética, a Puerto Rican reggae band, performing in Mexico in 2013. The band is a headliner at RuidoFest 2017 in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. José Miguel Rosas / Flickr

Global Notes: Latin Alternative Music Fest

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Now in its third year, RuidoFest, a still-new Chicago music festival, is again bringing a wide variety of Latin music to the stage at a sprawling Pilsen-neighborhood park.

The festival features norteño music from Texas, Puerto Rican reggae, Mexican electronica, Chilean alt-rock, electro- cumbia and more. The festival takes place July 7-9 at Addams/Medill park. 

For this week’s Global Notes with Morning Shift and Radio M host Tony Sarabia, we talk with one of the curators of RuidoFest, Eduardo Calvillo, about the festival’s philosophy.