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25 Live Performances To Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Watch Calma Carmona perform "When I Was Your Girl" in this NPR Live Sessions video playlist.
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Watch Calma Carmona perform "When I Was Your Girl" in this NPR Live Sessions video playlist.

World Cafe celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. In doing so, we look back to some of the incredible live performances from artists that have been featured on World Cafe, Latin Roots and WXPN's XPoNential and Nuevofest music festivals. Check out this 25-song video playlist, featuring a studio performance from Chicano Batman, a festival performance by Xenia Rubinos and much, much more.

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Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.