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 ...

It is the sound of a bunch of Texan high-school students playing mariachi, for love and for course credit. Instruction in mariachi—the most Mexican of genres—is popular and getting more so in ...

They also played the traditional mariachi instruments: the guitarrón, trumpet, violin and vihuela. The four-song show ended in a standing ovation. As a classically trained pianist, Goynes-Brown ...