SAN ANTONIO – The sound of guitarrons, violins and other instruments will fill the air at the Pearl on Friday in celebration of Mexican Independence Day. The “Viva Dieciseis at Pearl” event features ...

NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — Mariachi music is deeply rooted in Mexican culture and it’s appreciated by people all around the world. CBS 8 caught up with a group of kids in National City whose love for ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Mariachi music is a staple in Mexican American culture, especially in Los Angeles, and one place where you can certainly feel the magic of tradition is inside Dodger Stadium. "I ...

PACOIMA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The smooth sounds of trumpets, violins and guitars filled the rehearsal room at Lluvia Y Fuego Mariachi Academy in Pacoima as students got ready for their Cinco de Mayo ...

ROBSTOWN — For four days at the end of June, Robstown Early College High School rang with the sounds of mariachi, the strumming of guitars, vihuelas, guitarrones and guitarras de golpe drifting ...

The band room at Memorial Park Middle School is buzzing with activity on a sunny afternoon in early October. “Controlled chaos,” says Colleen Phillips, the school’s Orchestra/Assistant Band Director.

Valentin Gonzalez was just 7 years old when he picked up a vihuela for the first time to play the music that has run through his family’s veins for five generations. He learned mariachi from his ...

Opera is an art form that has been around for more than 400 years. But not mariachi opera. This hybrid form of contemporary opera and the Mexican tradition of mariachi folk music got its start just 13 ...

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 ...

The city launched the Tamales and Mariachi Festival in 2019 to put Mexican and Latin American traditions in the center of ...

Jorge Rodriguez pauses for just a brief moment when asked why he performs mariachi music. “Initially, it was because it made me happy. It made me forget about the world,” says the San Jose-based ...

Inside a Caldwell building Wednesday evening, three girls crowded around a fellow band member, her head leaned back as they made up her face to look like a skull. A black line with small crossed ...