From the mariachi's booming guitarron on "Cielito Lindo," to the powerful accordeón in Los Tigres del Norte's "Ni Parientes ...

Hector Cueva-Becerra ’26 had never played an instrument before his sophomore year at Princeton. Two months after joining Mariachi Los Tigres de Princeton, he performed on the ‘vihuela,’ a Spanish five ...

Thanks to Sanchez and the production’s mariachi director, Jose Chabelo Longoria, both of whom worked with the entire cast, Rivera can now play a string instrument. Like Sanchez, she notes the ...

Mariachi Luz de Luna has established a reputation for quality mariachi music in Tucson. ... The core of the mariachi sound is in the stringed instruments, Moreno said.

Mariachi Pasión, an all-female mariachi band in Phoenix, ... The brass shines with Melissa Leal on trumpet, while the vihuelas, five-stringed instruments resembling small guitars, ...

Her father, Juan, is the maestro, the music director. She’s the program director. The father and daughter duo collaborate to share the culture and heritage of mariachi music with their students. The ...

Mariachi bands consist of a trumpet, a harp, an accordion, a vihuela (a high-pitched five-string guitar), a guitar, a guitarrón (akin to a bass guitar) and a violin. It is a style all its own.

As a trumpet player, Casas enjoys the role his instrument plays in mariachi music. “The trumpet is the leader of the melody,” Casas said. De la Rosa was inspired to learn the trumpet by a ...

In a mariachi, musicians play various string instruments — guitar, guitarrón, violin and, on occasion, harp — along with trumpets and, depending on the size of the ensemble, drums. Typically ...

Mariachi Pasión, an all-female mariachi band in Phoenix, is redefining what the art form can be. Here's how these musicians are playing it forward.