Jorge Cardenas of the sierreño group Los Del Momento considers it the most “utilitarian” of all the música Mexicana instruments; it can be used in corridos, mariachi and norteño without the ...

The group also provides free biweekly mariachi clinics to Evanston Township High School students, and the members are now raising money for instruments and uniforms, or trajes, including jackets and ...

Mariachi’s popularity is a story of migration ... Jalen from Lubbock practises her vihuela (a stringed instrument) for five hours a day and says that through it she expresses her culture ...