Allan leads the Mariachi Band program at Esperanza Elementary School in West Valley City, where kids as young as seven years old are learning to play traditional Mariachi songs. - Mariachi is ...

In 2015, the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts launched a summer camp to teach kids how to play mariachi music with a budget to work with 30 kids — fifty showed up. Since then, the camp has ...

FADEL: Mariachi music - it is home. I mean, he's philosophical. He's kind. He can be pretty tough, too. What are the different reasons these kids are drawn to studying mariachi? I mean ...

A new Netflix documentary shares a slice of southern Texas life as a high school mariachi band makes its ... What does it take for these kids to compete at this level? Because it's a low-income ...

It is a recognition that generations and generations of immigrants have settled on this side of the border and are now putting their kids through American schools. That competitive mariachi exists ...

Andrew Rodriguez teaches the mariachi class. He said the group includes kids, seniors, Latino and non-Latino musicians. "It's the diversity that really makes it special," he said. Alex Rodriguez ...

Jaime Valenzuela, who directs the camp, said he wasn’t a mariachi prodigy. Most kids aren’t and that’s OK, he said. “Every kid is different. Some kids can, within seconds or minutes ...

"Really from the beginning, Bob's idea was always that mariachi in the schools would make the community more connected with the education that the kids were participating in," Nevin says.

"I feel really, really safe with women," said Mari Meza-Burgos, who sings and plays the Mexican vihuela for the mariachi group Las ... The women often bring their kids with them to practice.