Veteran’s Middle School Mariachi has placed first in San Antonio’s Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza for the past two years in a row. The group sets the standard for mariachi music programs among elementary/middle schools. They’re level of performance is beyond any elementary/middle school mariachi in the history of mariachi music education and the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. The Metropolitan Nashville Public School System was impressed with the group’s YouTube video from their award-winning performance during San Antonio’s 17th Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza and invited them to travel to Nashville to help start mariachi music programs in the school district.