ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- Once a week after school at Ponderosa Elementary the sound of music fills classroom 47. Students are learning about mariachi music and how to play instruments as part of ...

The sun isn’t up, but already the halls at Hueneme High School in Oxnard are vibrating with music. It’s not your standard boombox fare, but a sweet, melodic mix of trumpets, violins and guitars that ...

Coral Lopez arrives 90 minutes early to Kimball Middle School twice a week to attend mariachi practice. Up until this year, mariachi did not exist at the Elgin middle school. The new program at ...

Music leader, José Soto, helps empower young musicians through free classes and instruction as their confidence grows through community performances Read more stories celebrating the local Latino ...

Mariachi Rosas, Northern California’s first all-female youth mariachi group, made their debut on Thursday before a packed house of parents at the closing event of the Luther Burbank Center for the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What happens when a hard-core band decides to pick up traditional ...

Just when you think there’s nothing new in popular music, that it’s all been done, along comes Metalachi, the world’s first and only heavy metal mariachi band. The five Mexican-American musicians from ...

The unusual combination of heavy metal and mariachi tunes is probably not going to be the next big thing in the music scene. But don’t tell that to the guys in the spiky sombreros shredding the ...