CHICAGO (AP) – Jose Torres smiles as he thinks about how his 12-year-old daughter has embraced learning the same mariachi music he plays at home as part of a new Chicago Public Schools program that ...

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.

In 2011, UNESCO recognized mariachi as an Intangible Cultural Heritage, and now the U.S. Postal Service is celebrating Mexico’s traditional music by unveiling a pane of 20 Mariachi Forever stamps.

A recent mariachi camp is part of a larger growth pattern of mariachi programs in middle schools across the city.

When the Postal Service asked Rafael López to design a commemorative stamp representing Latin American culture in the United States, he knew exactly what to show: a mariachi band. And he knew just one ...

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Listening to the unmistakable and rhythmic sound of the mariachi produces a special sensation on the skin and provokes a mixture of feelings of joy and even nostalgia, which only mariachi music ...

The strains of mariachi music filled the air at the University of San Diego late last week. "We invited some of the best professional mariachis in the world to join us in teaching technique and ...

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 ...

This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. Click here to subscribe. Santa Clara native Abril Dorado has loved mariachi music for as long ...

Do you know that feeling when a song moves you so much, you just feel like you have to add your own voice? Mexican culture has an answer to that: a cathartic, joyous yell called a grito. Legendary ...