Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by musicians Floco Torres of Akron and Sebastian Arze of Asunción, Paraguay.

Torres is a hip hop artist based in Akron and one half of the duo Free Black!,which he formedin 2018 with producer/drummer HR3. For more information about Floco and his music, visit flocotorres7.bandcamp.com and nobodycaresnews.com.

Arze lives in Asunción, where he is a member of the reggae-grunge band Deficiente. To learn more about the group, visit linktr.ee/Deficiente.

Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.

Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.

For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.

To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.