Coral Lopez arrives 90 minutes early to Kimball Middle School twice a week to attend mariachi practice. Up until this year, mariachi did not exist at the Elgin middle school. The new program at ...

NBC's hit TV show "The Voice" featured mariachi Julio Cesar Castillo. Lady Gaga's birthday version of "Born This Way" with mariachis went viral. A 9-year-old mariachi achieved a standing ovation and ...

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 ...

San Antonio – Puro San Antonio. That’s what you’ll feel when you see American Mariachi, a 1970s-set musical that is all about family, tradition, and mariachi. The story centers on a woman named Lucha, ...

KEARNS — For Nephi Garcia-Sevillano, a trumpeter with Mariachi Fuego de Utah, the fast, lively pace of the Mexican musical style is the draw. "Just playing mariachi makes everyone happy. I like that," ...

For many Anglos, mariachi means a band of strolling musicians that sounds better after a couple of tequilas in a Mexican restaurant. For people from Mexico, mariachi is a proud musical tradition that ...