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.

More captivating is her voice, which soars over a bed of trumpets, accordion and guitarrón as she performs Mexican standards like "Cielo Rojo" and "Amor Eterno." Sitting in a nondescript booth in a ...

For 14 years, José Hernández, the Grammy-nominated founder of Mariachi Sol de México, has hosted the Mariachi Nationals and Summer Institute for young mariachi students, giving them an opportunity to ...

Jul. 26—"It's not the music we play, it's what we live," says mariachi performer Elias Garcia. Garcia plays private events in a group named Mariachi Norteño, along with accordion player Miguelito ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Mariachi is a type of musical group, originally from Mexico. It consists of violins, trumpets, guitars, guitarron and a high pitch, five-string guitar called Vihuela. In Las Vegas, ...

A new mariachi school in Mexico City is seeking to revive a music that has lost ground over the years and that sometimes seems relegated to commercial jingles and elevator Muzak. Called the Mariachi ...

LA CANDELARIA TLAPALA, Mexico -- The happy sounds of mariachi music -- the strings and horns and soaring lyrics of love -- rise from houses and shops and fill the streets of this little village on a ...