Interested in practicing the jarana, a guitarlike instrument from Veracruz, Mexico? How about the marimbol, a wooden box with tuned metal tongues that provide the bass line? If so, consider the ...

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.

Editor's note: This week Erica E. Phillips tells the remarkable story of Los Angeles group Las Cafeteras, a seven-piece who play a traditional type of Veracruz music called Son Jarocho. But they're ...

Son jarocho, a Mexican rural music that is enjoying a cosmopolitan revival, has very specific roots: in the farmland and fishing villages of southern Veracruz state, along the Caribbean coast, where ...

2 Full Cast Set For DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL North American Tour Brava presents the 6th Annual San Francisco Son Jarocho Festival, honoring the women of Jarocho, on January 30 - February 4, 2018.

"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 ...

You might be familiar with the 1958 Ritchie Valens song, “La Bamba.” But what you might not know is that this song comes from a very old Mexican musical genre, the Son Jarocho. Born of conquest and ...

In the world of Mexican music, mariachi and norteño are the big stars - popular styles that have worked their way into everyday mainstream culture in the United States. Son Jarocho, however, music ...

Rios de Norte y Sur (Rivers from North and South), the sophomore album from New York City's Radio Jarocho, pays loving homage to an art form that crossed the border with Mexican-American immigrants ...

"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 ...