Letters

Kenneth Lee, Raytown

Pitch Music Awards

Didn't notice a Latin or World Music category this year on the Pitch Music Awards ballot — hmm.

There are some great acts, though no validation is needed — they have a following that validates them in venues that sell out! Maybe The Pitch staff isn't into world music this season, and that's OK. Maybe if KC caught up to real mainstream Latin and world music acts, the best local acts wouldn't have to travel outside KC and would be able to share locally what we share around the country. But that happens when folks are musically uneducated or afraid to open other horizons in KC. I think the politically correct word would be ignorance. If you don't know you have the world in your backyard, maybe you just need to get outside the bubble and enjoy it all. I read The Pitch, and there isn't any horizon you folks would not cross to tell it all — great local magazine. Someone slipped through the cracks on the "World Beat" category!

You are invited to my birthday bash on July 19 at the Westport Beach Club. There is life in world-beat music and in El Mambo world!

Respectfully,

Miguel DeLeon, El Mambo Orquestra

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