Click photos to enlarge One week after its debut at the Tucson International Mariachi Conference’s Espectacular Concert, the buzz is still strong about Ballet Folklórico Infantil de Colima. No one expected that a group of children under the tutelage of the great Universidad de Colima folklórico dance program might make such a powerful impression alongside […]
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The Layman’s guide to the Tucson International Mariachi Conference
The layman’s guide to the Tucson International Mariachi Conference What is it? Now in its 35th year, the Tucson International Mariachi Conference is the longest continuously running mariachi festival in the world. It is the place where singer Linda Ronstadt first professionally performed mariachi standards, and the birthplace of her platinum-selling Canciones de Mi Padre […]
Three views of folklorico history in one day
If I could have a dream folklórico dance day, this past Saturday was it. The title of this film and book project is The Mariachi Miracle. But folklórico dance is as much a part of the story as mariachi music. The two are intimately intertwined, reflecting the rhythms, traditional dress, music and dance of the […]
Colima youth show Tucson how folklorico dance is done
Even beyond the artistry displayed, there was something poetically beautiful about the Grupo Infantl folklórico dancers from the Universidad de Colima coming to play at Tucson High School last night. In a sense it was all coming full circle. So much of Tucson’s love of folklórico comes from the Universidad de Colima when a young […]
Funding help needed in critical crunch time for The Mariachi Miracle
In the age of Trump few things are more important than showing the power of Mexican Americans to transform their communities. That’s exactly what The Mariachi Miracle is about – illustrating how, beginning in days of segregation, the Mexican American community turned to its own culture to create solutions to its own problems. And in […]
A Merry-Achi Christmas
There are so many ways in which mariachis make every season and celebration better, both for the Mexican American community and for the larger population. Their music resonates Christmas in particular from both sides of the border. They unite their families and friends with the music that binds them eternally. And they bridge the […]
Summit View Elementary beginning violinists off to a solid start
One cannot fail to be impressed by the quality of mariachi and folklórico teaching in our schools. A recent visit to Summit View Elementary School in the Sunnyside School District recently brought this home. There I watched Myrna Salinas working with beginning violin students in an after school program for mostly fourth and fifth graders. […]
What questions will be asked in the interview?
When setting up an interview for the film people often request, “Can you send me the questions you’ll ask?” No. I’m not trying to be rude. Honestly I have no idea what I’ll ask in any interview. Yes, I’ll do my homework about you. I’ll know who you are and what you do. I’ll likely […]
Final flurry offering details, new perspectives to The Mariachi Miracle
As the final weeks of filming for the Mariachi Miracle tick down, a new flurry of interviews is being conducted designed to fill in context and detail of the youth mariachi/folklorico movement, and its consequences. Educators, parents, Chicano activists, historians, community elders, musicians, dancers, choreographers and more are filling in the gaps on how […]
Mariachi Miracle lecture September 22
Producer/Director Daniel Buckley will be giving a lecture at the University of Arizona Library Special Collections division in the UA Main Library on September 22. The talk will center around what Buckley expected to uncover as he interviewed folks for the Mariachi Miracle film and book project, and the unexpected twists those interviews revealed. The interviews […]
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