Mariachi Campanas de America will perform the ... He wasn’t sure a story set along the U.S./Mexico border would resonate there. But it did. The librettist, whose father emigrated to the United ...

Instruction in mariachi—the most Mexican of genres—is popular and getting more so in border states. Over 120 public schools in Texas teach it. The best ensembles come from the Rio Grande valley.

While one member of Mariachi Aguilas struggled to tune his ... For students from any border district traveling to a competition or sports event, the main concern isn’t a random immigration ...