Through music, Alvaro Paulino Jr. wants his fellow Mexicans to know they're not alone.

MORE: LSU basketball star Flau'jae shares motivational message before March Madness She pulled up to the arena in a black powersuit with gold accents that would have had any mariachi band looking fly.

An important component of being in the band is embracing the "trajes de charro" (the charro suits), known simply as trajes, which are a staple uniform among mariachi band players. Trajes come with ...

It is a suit. This is the type of suit that Mexican ... The Bryan Station High School mariachi band will perform at the Viva Mexico Festival in Masterson Station Park this Sunday, Sept.

The bands will perform in their traditional mariachi suits, aiming to add state championship trophies to their already impressive viral success story.

“Whenever we are out of the suits, we are regular people,” Gonzalez ... lively and danceable styles of mariachi music. “Even ‘Higher’—” she says, “we started with ‘Cielito ...

Professional youth mariachi groups are rare in Oregon, a point of pride for the young musicians. The group’s members casually drop Gen Z slang into conversation during their weekly rehearsals and band ...

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.

We didn’t even have suits. … We only wore a white shirt and a moño (bow tie),” Piña recalled of his eighth grade mariachi concerts in Laredo, Texas. He said his current mariachi band ...

At a November school board meeting, Fayette school’s Director of Fine Arts Katherine Lowther, said a “direct and clear result of that investment” was the mariachi band. She introduced Nathan ...