The Mexican Music and Dance Concert debuted last Thursday with a spectacle of traditional mariachi songs and choreography ...

“It is not a costume. It is not an outfit or whatever ... The Bryan Station High School mariachi band will perform at the Viva Mexico Festival in Masterson Station Park this Sunday, Sept.

Tell us about the mariachi band there and why you chose to follow ... There's instruments and costumes and competition fees. This school, in particular, you point out, is in a low-income district.

PV: Music is a way to express myself and share ... The picture she sees of me in my mariachi outfit performing is incredible. She has never witnessed my performance, but just seeing the photos ...

But then there's the visual aspect where the outfits, the trajes ... (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI") ABEL ACUNA: We have this music in our blood. It is being at a barbecue ...

Mariachi music often served as an emotional valve in ... and you don’t just wear a mariachi suit as a costume—you have to earn it, Paulino says, by getting professional training.

Mariachi Orion has been playing traditional mariachi music in Greenville and beyond for years. The band is one of the few of its kind in South Carolina.