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 ...

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A musical odyssey ongoing for hundreds of years has landed on the Westside, providing opportunities for both students and local festivities. The Santa Monica College Mariachi Ensemble recently ...

Mariachi music flows through the veins of Jose Hernandez. The 43-year-old native of Mexico is a fifth-generation mariachi musician who at age 3 began singing with family members. On Saturday Hernandez ...

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 ...

Longmont’s Timberline K-8, where about 85% of students are Latino, created a mariachi music program about five years ago to give students more options. Since then, other St. Vrain Valley schools have ...

The unusual combination of heavy metal and mariachi tunes is probably not going to be the next big thing in the music scene. But don’t tell that to the guys in the spiky sombreros shredding the ...

HAYWARD — It’s 9:30 a.m. Monday, and Bryan Holbrook’s second-period orchestra class is already off to a clangorous start at Winton Middle School. After briefly discussing plans with his class about a ...