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The music fest brought Grupo Frontera, Bobby Pulido, and El Tri onto one jaw-dropping bill. Despite organizational hiccups, the day was “historic.”
Alicia Maria Meier is the assistant managing editor at Texas Monthly and a translator from Spanish and Catalan. She earned her MFA from Columbia University, where she went on to manage the international translation exchange program Word for Word and its anthology publications. She is a PEN/Heim Translation Award winner and enjoys writing about language and literature. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
The music fest brought Grupo Frontera, Bobby Pulido, and El Tri onto one jaw-dropping bill. Despite organizational hiccups, the day was “historic.”
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