Feb. 12—SAN BENITO — More than 20 years after Rey Avila's dream, his family is ready to unveil a treasure trove of artifacts he collected from pioneers of the folk genre born in the city he called ...

Nov. 5—SAN BENITO — After more than 20 years, the Texas Conjunto Hall of Fame and Museum has found a home. Like organizers of the city's San Benito History Museum and Freddy Fender Museum, Rey Avila ...

Nov. 19—SAN BENITO — For decades, empty storefronts lined stretches of Robertson Street, from the majestic San Benito Bank and Trust building's golden domes to the winding resaca. Along the resaca's ...

SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...

On the eve of his induction into the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame & Museum in San Benito, Max Baca is nostalgic about his humble beginnings in Albuquerque, N.M. The Grammy-winning bajo sexto ...

Elisa de Hoyas is part of a new generation of acordeonistas who are keeping conjunto thriving through teaching and performance in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is ...

Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is now offered as a fine-arts band credit in at least a dozen schools in the Valley and as far north as San Antonio. As the adage goes: If you want to preserve the ...

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.) With the soundtrack for your morning, ...