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This is the second year of the Fresno County Summer Art Academy’s Mariachi Performance and Composition course. The class was ...
Jorge Tello carefully wraps a finished mariachi suit at his store in Boyle Heights. Tello has been a tailor for the mariachi of Los Angeles and beyond since 1984.
Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles reimagines the mariachi charro suit. Dulé Hill meets the founder of Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles to learn more about how the world’s first LGBTQ+ mariachi ...
This month, Houston welcomed Las Chabelitas, the city’s second all-female mariachi under the direction of UH Mariachi Pumas Director José Longoria.
Female mariachi performers often wear long skirts, bolero jackets and a bowtie. Like the suits men wear, they are embellished with embroidery, gold buttons and sequins.
Tailor Jorge Tello helps a client customize a mariachi suit at his store in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 2013. For 30 years Tello has tailored to musicians who are some of the most demanding in their ...
One of our standout entries in NPR's College Podcast Challenge comes from a student in Michigan, who tells how Mariachi music helped him cope with the loss of his uncle and grandparents.
HOUSTON — Two Houston-area high school mariachi bands, whose impromptu Whataburger performance went viral with millions of views, are now headed to the UIL State Mariachi Festival at Seguin High ...
News Meet the mariachi using music to uplift New York's Mexican community Through music, Alvaro Paulino Jr. wants his fellow Mexicans to know they're not alone.
The Texas Rangers’ in-house mariachi band went viral with a showstopping rendition of Creed’s late-nineties rock anthem.
Jorge Tello carefully wraps a finished mariachi suit at his store in Boyle Heights. Tello has been a tailor for the mariachi of Los Angeles and beyond since 1984. (Bethany Mollenkof / Los Angeles ...