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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 ...

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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 ...

An unlikely tribute to classic metal cover songs from artists such as Metallica, Slayer and Ozzy Osbourne will be played with traditional mariachi instruments. Metalachi, the first and only heavy ...

Longmont’s Timberline K-8, where about 85% of students are Latino, created a mariachi music program about five years ago to give students more options. Since then, other St. Vrain Valley schools have ...

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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 ...