What’s Cool At School? Middle School Mariachi Madness! As soon as an announcer at a recent student music festival said: “El ...

He was eventually recruited to play for Viva! El Paso, where he got his first taste of the region’s love for mariachi music. “La gente es muy alegre, muy bailadora. Y el mariachi, pues ...

He is from the border city of El Paso; playing mariachi “brings me home”, he ... This happened long ago with what school music directors call the “big three” (band, orchestra, choir ...