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“It's insane that it took so long . . ." Helen Ochoa says When Helen Ochoa covered Beyonce’s “If I Were a Boy” in 2013, she gave it a regional Mexican makeover by singing it in Spanish with banda ...
Regional Mexican music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts and reaching new ...
MEXICO CITY — Regional Mexican music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts and ...
Love, tradition, and culture will take center stage in Austin later this month as Roy Lozano’s Ballet Folklórico de Texas ...
This interview almost didn’t happen. And the blame lies with Mexico City’s traffic. Summer in the Mexican capital is more like a wet autumn, with cold and stormy afternoons. The consequence of this — ...
Recording an album of Mexican folk songs in Spanish was something Linda Ronstadt dreamed of doing from the time she first left home in Tucson for Los Angeles at 18. It just took some time to get to ...
BEAUTIFUL. E DICEN COME DOWN OVER A THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM MEXICO, INSIDE A SMALL DANCE STUDIO IN PATTERSON HIGH SCHOOL, PEOPLE OF ALL AGES USE DANCE AND MUSIC TO MAKE MEXICO FEEL CLOSER TO HOME. MY ...
September is a great month for outdoor events. The New Mexico Jazz Festival is bringing us the blues at Civic Plaza this weekend. Or check out one of these other jazzy events. Got an event we should ...
Listening to the music of David Wax Museum is like being invited to a fiesta. The sound is folksy and rocklike, mixed with a tinge of zydeco and a colorful outer layer of traditional Mexican folk ...
SWARTHMORE — It’s almost Fiesta Time! The community is invited to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, a day of Mexican culture and heritage, on Sunday, May 5 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Park Avenue Community (PAC ...
Jimmy Humilde, founder of L.A.’s trailblazing regional Mexican record label Rancho Humilde, is writing a new narrative about Mexican American success — and it starts with Mexicans no longer being ...
The 28th Annual Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival was a celebration of the Mexican spirit, and party to honor a unique culture that, as the festival’s headliner Angeles Ochoa sang Saturday night, has no ...