As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel. Drawing from her roots in traditional mariachi music, she uses the ...

The young musicians — all students or recent graduates of Woodburn High School — played a wide selection of traditional Mexican music ... violins and mariachi-specific string instruments.

other mariachi staples include the guittarron, a six-string bass that provides the music’s crucial low end; and the vihuela, a fretted, plucked Spanish string instrument. In addition to the cast ...

The club teaches and performs Mariachi music on campus to raise appreciation ... but the biggest challenge was getting traditional instruments such as the vihuela and the ‘guitarron,’ a six-string ...

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.

Rosalio Chavarin, 80, wanted to play mariachi music since he was a kid. Thanks to the nonprofit Villa Musica, he's part of an ...

A new Netflix documentary shares a slice of southern Texas life as a high school mariachi band makes its way to ... right? There's instruments and costumes and competition fees.

This inspires Lucha to recruit her cousin Boli (Heather Velazquez) to start an all-female mariachi band to play that song and bring some joy to Amalia. That they have no instruments, musical skill ...

Half of the students in the mariachi band are traditional band and orchestra students who have been playing for years, he said. “The other half have never touched an instrument or read music ...