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PUBELO, Colo. (KOAA) — Former students of Chavez Huerta Preparatory Academy (CHPA) in Pueblo want to know where the mariachi instruments and uniforms are. CHPA closed its doors in June after Pueblo ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Jose Torres smiles as he thinks about how his 12-year-old daughter has embraced learning the same mariachi music he plays at home as part of a new Chicago Public Schools program that ...

Mariachi de Uclatlán at UCLA practices the various styles of mariachi music, such as son jalisciense and huapango. The ensemble features both more traditionally Western instruments, such as the harp, ...

Students at Cheyenne High School wished a “Feliz Navidad” to their parents, teachers and the mayor at the North Las Vegas school’s first mariachi concert on Wednesday night. Principal Anthony Nuñez ...

Longmont’s Timberline K-8, where about 85% of students are Latino, created a mariachi music program about five years ago to give students more options. Since then, other St. Vrain Valley schools have ...

HAYWARD — It’s 9:30 a.m. Monday, and Bryan Holbrook’s second-period orchestra class is already off to a clangorous start at Winton Middle School. After briefly discussing plans with his class about a ...

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 ...