RI Food Fight and Afro-Latino Festival on Sonic Watermelons

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RI Food Fight and Afro-Latino Festival on Sonic Watermelons Original Episode Title: Choosing from the cream of the crop with Jim Nellis and RI Food Fights *** Original Episode Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 *** Name of Guest(s): Jim Nellis, Founder, RI Food Fights *** Original Episode Summary: With the nation sitting up and taking notice of the impressive food scene in RI, multiple James Beard Award nominated chefs, and festivals celebrating the abundant seafood, it'd be silly to take Little Rhody for granted when it's feeding time. Our guest tonight on Sonic Watermelons is RI Food Fights founder Jim Nellis, who will tell us about how he is using social media and a healthy dose of competition to make sure that you are exploring all of the options that Providence and the rest of Rhode Island has to offer. Listen in tonight as we talk burgers, tacos, ice cream, cookies....are you getting hungry yet? *** Contact Info for Guest(s): www.rifoodfights.com Twitter: @RIFoodFights Facebook: @RIFoodFights Instagram: @RIFoodFights *** More Info About the Guest, Topics and/or Podcast: Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the US, but many cultures reside here, and summer is a great time to check them out. One way to interact with diverse people and communities is through food, and that’s one of the reasons we invited Jim Nellis from RI Food Fights to talk to us in June 2016. Coming up August 1 is RI Food Fights’ “Iced Coffee Summer Celebration 2016” and their “2nd Annual Calamari Throwdown” (#BestCalamariRI), both of which Jim discussed during the June 14 interview, along with highlighting their recently held 3rd Annual Big Burger Blowout. *** Audio from the podcast also comes from the Reza Rites Archives: The New York-based Afro-Latino Festival just wrapped up its fourth year of celebration and education, July 8-10, 2016. This year featured dozens of performers including Nina Sky, Tito Puente Jr., Nickodemus, and Los Rakas, a duo representing Panama and Oakland - who Sonic Watermelons Executive Producer Reza Clifton interviewed in 2012. Reza also interviewed 2016 Afro-Latino Festival participants Que Bajo, who also participated in last year’s festival, the same year that Reza attended, interviewing a number of artists, recording live performance footage, and dancing, singing, and connecting. Included in this podcast is a preview and part I of Reza’s digital mixtape, “Venus Sings and La Musica Mueve at Afro-Latino Festival, NYC.” The audio medley includes, in order of appearance, 1) Uproot Andy/Que Bajo; 2) Danay Suarez; 3) Les Nubian, Live; 4) Les Nubian; 5) Les Nubian, Live; 6) Los Rakas; 7) Los Rakas, Africana, played at Afro-Latino Festival (audience singing along and dancing); 8) Los Rakas; 9) Los Rakas, Africana, played at Afro-Latino Festival (audience singing along and dancing); More info: http://www.afrolatinofestnyc.com/ http://quebajo.com/ https://danaysuarez.bandpage.com/ http://www.lesnubians.com/ http://losrakas.com/ *** Sonic Watermelons Contact Info: www.bsrlive.com venussings.wordpress.com/about-sonic-watermelons-on-bsr/ Facebook: @sonicwatermelons Twitter: @WatermelonRadio Soundcloud: @sonicwatermelons iTunes: “sonic watermelons” *** Sonic Staff & Volunteers Reza Clifton Tamara Diaz Deejay Kellan Jessica LaBrie