Music sometimes acts like a universal language, connecting people from different places, backgrounds and cultures. Now, a four-time Grammy award nominee is connecting young students with the age old ...

Mariachi music, a vibrant genre born in Mexico and carried across generations, is finding new life on Boston University’s campus. This semester, junior Josue Ibañez-Bautista founded Los Mariachi ...

San Antonio – Puro San Antonio. That’s what you’ll feel when you see American Mariachi, a 1970s-set musical that is all about family, tradition, and mariachi. The story centers on a woman named Lucha, ...

In June, Anthony Medrano will be in California to help produce Mariachi USA, one of the nation's premiere events to celebrate ...

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Toloache is a flower, associated with Mesoamerica’s ancient peoples, with known medicinal and hallucinogenic properties. It’s also used in “love potions.” So when a pair of New York City female ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- Once a week after school at Ponderosa Elementary the sound of music fills classroom 47. Students are learning about mariachi music and how to play instruments as part of ...

Some musicians may frown upon heckling, but mariachi performers often encourage supportive yelling, or grito, during their concerts. Grito can often be heard at performances by Mariachi de Uclatlán, a ...

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For the characters at its center, “American Mariachi” is a story of people defying bias and cultural expectations in pursuit of a dream. For the five women portraying those characters, it has been in ...

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.

It’s not easy to break with tradition. Especially when that tradition is centuries old and as steeped in a way of life as mariachi music is in Mexican culture. Traditionally played by men, with songs ...