For these teens in Veracruz it's cool to be traditional and play son jarocho. April 5, 2013— -- I came to Cosoleacaque, a mid-sized town in the southern part of Mexico's Veracruz province, to ...

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles was decked out in white Saturday thanks to the 21st annual Encuentro de Jaraneros de California, a festival that highlights the music and dancing of ...

Ask most any person outside of Mexico what that country's best known musical style is and the answer inevitably will be mariachi. Understandably since mariachi is Mexico's most popular musical export.

Sophia Enriquez vividly remembers the first time she attended a Fandango. It was 2018, and she was in Veracruz, an eastern Mexican state known for its rich cultural traditions, including Son Jarocho, ...

I think that it is the way it is because it's music made by a whole community. It's not only me. It's many great musicians and artists all involved in this piece of music. And also the magic thing ...

Each night for the past few months, Joaquín Encinias spends hours in rehearsal. The artistic director of the National Flamenco Institute grew up in a rehearsal studio as he studied alongside his ...

"His guitar strums, they sounded like his machete whacks." That's how musician Fredi Vega describes his grandfather's guitar work in this week's Alt.Latino, which is all about the Mexican music style ...

Betto Arcos says the style of music is so vibrant because it comes from the Caribbean side of Mexico and has all the influences of that region. Betto Arcos is the host of Global Village, a world music ...

Musician Hector Paul Flores has been to the Midwest and Mexico and Asia. He’s heard “La Bamba” everywhere. “I’ve been in Vietnam, I’ve been in Thailand, and I’ve seen cover bands singing ‘La Bamba,’” ...

With their shoestring budget and strong ties to Santa Ana, Los Cojolites battle to save son jarocho, the Afro-Mestizo music of MexicoNs Gulf Coast Every Thursday evening, Benito CortNs Padua, a ...

Every year along the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, musicians gather for an international music festival called the“Fandango Fronterizo.” It’s like a giant jam session, with musicians in San Diego and ...