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Mariachi music emerged from the ranches and small towns of western central Mexico. As Mexico’s population became more and more urban in the twentieth century, so did mariachi music. Mexican radio, recordings, cinema, and television featured mariachi music, and the music spread to all corners of Mexico and beyond. The electronic media and immigration from Mexico has made mariachi music an important form of musical expression in the United States. There are more than 20 major mariachi festivals around the U.S., and mariachi ensembles are found today in the majority of states. With the Washington, DC area as a base, Mariachi Los Amigos has played for a wide variety of events, from weddings, baptisms and quinceañeras, to shopping center promotions, to Presidential state dinners and inaugurations. Whatever the occasion, they play the music they love the most, the “straight-ahead” mariachi sound.
Mariachi Los Amigos began during the winter of 1978, when it was hired to play the Monday night all-you-can-eat Mexican buffet at the Ramada Inn in Alexandria, Virginia. The group started as quartet comprised of a guitarist/singer from Mexico City, a Mexican American bass player from Dallas, Texas, an ethnomusicologist trumpet player and a Swedish-American contradance violinist. It soon added a professional belly dancer who played violin and later, another trumpeter who worked as a telecommunications specialist at the Pentagon. While the personnel of Mariachi Los Amigos has changed over the years, two things...
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