Oct
12
A LIVE concert featuring Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán will be held at the Joe Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio this Friday, October 16 at 8PM. The event will be a drive-in concert in effort to ease our way back into the live concert experience slowly and safely. The concert will...
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Aug
31
The Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza National Vocal Competition is going online this year and the deadline to participate is Thursday, October 1, 2020!!!! Don't miss the opportunity to participate in the largest, longest running and most competitive mariachi vocal competition in the U.S. Best of all, you can participate from the...
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Aug
31
By this time, most of you are back to school and getting settled into a routine that is hopefully informative and productive. Do what you can to make it the best experience for yourself and those around you. As we continue through these challenging times, we know that everyone has...
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Aug
31
https://youtu.be/15WWknX8jUc Interview by Leon Camacho with Jose Alfredo Jimenez Medel. Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and José Alfredo Jiménez Medel will come together for the first time ever to present “ASÍ FUE MI PADRE,” a show where the Mariachi Vargas will reunite with the musical legacy of José Alfredo Jiménez, “EL...
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Aug
31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJiJr4EaCV0&t=1623s Thanks to Alex Trevino, Mariachi Director at McAllen High School in McAllen, Texas for contributing this post. The entire world came to a stop and life as we knew it took a different turn amid the Covid-19 Pandemic in mid-March of 2020. So many people were affected by the...
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Aug
06
The multi award-winning Mariachi Nuevo Santander is proud to announce the international release of their third studio album, Sangre Mariachera, on all music streaming platforms including iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music. Hailing from the renowned Roma ISD Mariachi Program, Mariachi Nuevo Santander began work on their latest project...
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Jul
29
It’s nice to finally have some time to reflect on the past 25 years of the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. As I look back at some of these photos from the year 2004, I remember it being quite significant for many reasons. There are quite a few mariachi music educators and...
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Jul
29
A lo largo del año, mariachimusic.com ha lanzado videograbaciones con actuaciones excepcionales de la 25ª edición del festival anual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. Muchos de los videos han sido acompañados por artículos publicados en nuestro sitio internet. Ahora, con la adición de nuestro primer podcast, estamos incluyendo un tercer elemento para...
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Jul
29
Throughout the year, mariachimusic.com has released video recordings featuring exceptional performances from the 25th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. Many have been accompanied by blog articles posted on our website. Now, with the addition of our very first podcast, we’re including a third element to these videos and blogs. In this...
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Jun
25
Some called him “Santo Cecilio”; others, “the Mozart of mariachi.” To members of Mariachi Vargas, he was affectionately known as “El Chachalaco.” Regardless of what you called him, Pepe Martínez was a towering giant of mariachi music—a musical figure that none of us who had the privilege of knowing him...
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