Fri. 9/07 10a: Celebrating both Hispanic Heritage Month and the New Mexico State Centennial, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque invites the community to a day of festivities on September 9. All the buildings on the NHCC campus will be open to the public and there will be two stages of live music, dance and spoken word. Host Spencer Beckwith gets a preview of the celebration from musician Donny Tesso and the NHCC's Joseph Wasson.
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.