Sones de Mexico Ensemble strives to teach its audience that Mexico is not a monoculture when it comes to music. Instead, it is a country of many regions, each with its own musical style, traditions ...

Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Such experiences provided by UD — a nationally recognized ...

Even when rocking it acoustically as they’ve done for most of their storied career, acclaimed Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela are always pure electricity on stage. Their flamenco-nuevo stylings ...

Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great ...

Tiburcio Ulibarri on violin and is brother Dionisio Ulibarri on guitar, New Mexico, early 20th century (courtesy Rob Martínez) “In these rituals, these songs, these stories and dances, there is a ...

Hispanic-American folk music — which includes dance music — has been one of the richest veins of musical treasure in the New World. Think of dance forms alone — the habanera, tango, salsa, merengue, ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. When New Mexican folklorist and musician Cipriano Vigil died this week, he left behind an immense trove of music ...

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