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 ...

Music leader, José Soto, helps empower young musicians through free classes and instruction as their confidence grows through community performances Read more stories celebrating the local Latino ...

Students at Cheyenne High School wished a “Feliz Navidad” to their parents, teachers and the mayor at the North Las Vegas school’s first mariachi concert on Wednesday night. Principal Anthony Nuñez ...

A musical odyssey ongoing for hundreds of years has landed on the Westside, providing opportunities for both students and local festivities. The Santa Monica College Mariachi Ensemble recently ...

Longmont’s Timberline K-8, where about 85% of students are Latino, created a mariachi music program about five years ago to give students more options. Since then, other St. Vrain Valley schools have ...

Mariachi music, a Mexican tradition, is now being treated with more respect thanks to a degree program in its birthplace of ...

HAYWARD — It’s 9:30 a.m. Monday, and Bryan Holbrook’s second-period orchestra class is already off to a clangorous start at Winton Middle School. After briefly discussing plans with his class about a ...

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 ...