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A recent mariachi camp is part of a larger growth pattern of mariachi programs in middle schools across the city.

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 ...

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 ...

In 2015, the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts launched a summer camp to teach kids how to play mariachi music with a budget to work with 30 kids — fifty showed up. Since then, the camp has grown in ...

LA CANDELARIA TLAPALA, Mexico -- The happy sounds of mariachi music -- the strings and horns and soaring lyrics of love -- rise from houses and shops and fill the streets of this little village on a ...