The production features original music by Héctor Martinez Morales, with songs performed by San Antonio’s Mariachi Azteca de América. Credit: Courtesy of Teatro Audaz From March 4-6 and 11-13, Teatro ...

Ten-year-old Carmencita dreams of being a mariachi singer and one day joining in performance with her father. However, her father clings to a long-held family tradition of male-only mariachis. When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mariachi Cobre has been playing Mexican music at Disney World's EPCOT since the park opened in 1982. (Photos: Mariachi Cobre; ...

In the late 1970s, a group of musicians in Topeka, Kansas, formed what became one of the first all-women mariachi bands in the country. Mariachi Estrella broke down barriers in a male-dominated music ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Teatro Audaz will present its first-ever mainstage musical of Mariachi Girl, an ...

When founder and producer of the Mariachi USA music festival Rodri Rodriguez first embarked on her journey as a pioneer in the Mariachi industry, she knew she had her work cut out for her. “As a woman ...

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 ...

For singer and violinist Crystal Hernandez, joining a mariachi group was in her blood. “I grew up seeing and loving mariachi music,” the 24-year-old said. “Seeing my parents and siblings perform, my ...

Though Ramon Ponce can’t pinpoint when he started singing, his talent for it won him first place in a contest when he was five years old. This was decades ago in the capital city of Puebla, Mexico, ...

It’s not easy to break with tradition. Especially when that tradition is centuries old and as steeped in a way of life as mariachi music is in Mexican culture. Traditionally played by men, with songs ...

Responding to "exploding" demand, a college in Denver now offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mariachi music. Students learn music and culture, but also business skills to build viable careers.