Band members of Mariachi Arcoiris, an L.A.-based group, and the world's first all-LGBTQ mariachi band, perform at the Long Beach Proud Festival in Los Angeles on May 20, 2023. In the song, the female ...

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.

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 ...

A few years back, Laura Martinez Perez picked up a violin for the first time and joined a group of aspiring young musicians banded together at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts learning ...

"Mariachi is a genre of regional Mexican music that dates back to at least the 18th century. It is usually played by a male group who play violins, trumpets and a guitar. All of the players take turns ...

“American Mariachi,” a play now running at Red Bank’s Two River Theater, reminds us that mariachi music is a fount of culture, community, resistance and joy — not just for kitschy Mexican restaurants.

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 ...

Editor’s note, 2:30 p.m. 9-26-23: Because of a couple cases of COVID-19, Alley Theatre has canceled the performances scheduled for this week and plans to open the show October 3. In American Mariachi, ...

Though Ramon Ponce can’t pinpoint when he started singing, his talent for it won him first place in a contest when he was five years old. This was decades ago in the capital city of Puebla, Mexico, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — If you walked into Davis Bilingual Elementary Magnet School this past month, you would hear music coming from the halls and inside the classrooms. Some students like JJ ...

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 ...