Mariachi music is “family music,” says educator Ramon Rivera, who led Alabama’s first school-based mariachi program at Pinson Valley High School in September. He said mariachi is for people of all ...

TO MARSHALLTOWN. IN MARSHALLTOWN. THERE’S A NEW SOUND COMING FROM THE BAND ROOM NEXT CONTINENT, READY TO TRUMPETS. SOME MIGHT DESCRIBE IT AS LOUD. OTHERS SAY IT’S BOISTEROUS. IT’S EASY TO DANCE TO JOY ...

In San Jose’s Alum Rock Union School District, students from third to eighth grade gather after school to learn how to play guitar, trumpet, violin, guitarrón, and vihuela, and to sing mariachi music.

MEXICO CITY — In the golden age of mariachi, thousands of music lovers would crowd into theaters and fancy restaurants or fill the Plaza Garibaldi in the heart of the capital just to hear their ...

Zaida Ramos first learned the magic of mariachi from her father when she was a little girl. Now they make music together, running the bilingual music program for San Jose’s Alum Rock Union School ...

An engaging, if straightforward, invitation into the realm of competitive mariachi bands in Texas high schools, the documentary feature “Going Varsity in Mariachi” introduces us to the most victorious ...

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BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO) — National Hispanic Heritage Month starts today and runs through October 15th. A Latin American student group at South Dakota State has a series of events planned and the first ...

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