Apr
20
The Roswell Symphony Orchestra recently announced a virtual concert alongside Mariachi Aztlán from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The New Mexico-based presenting organization and Mariachi Aztlán are already in the production phase of this project and tickets for the performance on Saturday, May 8th are on sale now...
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Apr
05
Miguel Hernández, más conocido en los círculos mariacheros como “la Pulga”, sucumbió al coronavirus el pasado diciembre a la edad de 70 años. Cuando conocí a Miguel en la Plaza Garibaldi, a finales de la década de los setenta, me pareció muy amena su historia como pionero de la misa...
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Apr
05
Miguel Hernández, the charismatic violinist best known as “La Pulga” (the flea), succumbed to coronavirus last December at age 70. From the time I met him in Plaza Garibaldi back in the late 1970s, I found Miguel's account of how he helped pioneer the mariachi mass compelling. He described to...
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Mar
17
https://youtu.be/umytIfiwdWw This past December the 26th Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza brought together 35 of the top student mariachi vocalists from elementary to college for the first ever virtual MVE National Vocal Competition. As the only competition judged by members of the world-renowned Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza...
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Mar
15
Guitarist and vocalist of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán Arturo Vargas is now being featured in the latest video tutorial of our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMZQhoroBw In this twelve minute video tutorial, Arturo reacts and comments on his performance of "El Pastor" at the 25th Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. He covers topics...
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Mar
10
The first U.S. cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus) were reported in January, 2020. By February, the virus had been detected in Mexico, and on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 an international pandemic. What had been an epidemic had now become a pandemic. Since then, coronavirus-related infections...
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Mar
10
Los primeros casos de Covid-19 (coronavirus) en Estados Unidos fueron reportados en enero de 2020. Ya para febrero, el virus se había detectado en México, y el 11 de marzo de 2020 la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró al Covid-19 una pandemia internacional. Lo que había sido una epidemia...
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Feb
06
The 26th Annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza has announced the awarding of $6,000 in scholarship prizes for the first ever virtual MVE National Vocal Competition that took place on Saturday, December 5, 2020. Thanks to our sponsors and thoughtful donors, the twelve winners throughout the middle school, high school and college/university...
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Jan
31
El día primero de este año, el covid–19 cobró otra vida más, esta vez la de nuestra amiga Cassandra Trejo, quien fue muy conocida en el ambiente de los festivales de mariachi. Cassandra Clemence o “Cassy”, como muchos le decían, nació en 1963 en el pueblo de Ruidoso, Nuevo México....
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Jan
30
On New Year’s Day of 2021, Covid-19 took another life, this time that of our dear friend Cassandra Trejo, a well-known personality in the mariachi festival world. Cassandra Clemence was born in 1963 in the town of Ruidoso, New Mexico. She grew up in Hobbs, New Mexico, but lived most...
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