Mariachi NYC

Enjoy Mexican Mariachi in NYC (Ranchera too) at Carnegie Hall, The Town Hall, Kupferberg Center, La Casa del Mariachi, El Coyote, and more. Ranchera music in charro cowboy suits developed in Jalisco around Guadalajara. In the 1920s, after the Mexican Revolution, the government began using mariachi to promote a Mexican identity. The emergence of radio, movies, and the phonograph made the genre a global icon of Mexicanidad. It’s very popular in Colombia and as a birthday tradition around the Latin world. To my Los Angeles-born self, mariachi will always be the music of home. “Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores…”