Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.) With the soundtrack for your morning, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conjunto musicians shown outside Lerma's Nite Club in San Antonio in the early 1980s. Such moments and music are highlighted in ...
A tribute to late conjunto music legend Flaco Jiménez will be part of the 13th edition of Muertos Fest at Hemisfair. The annual Día de los Muertos celebration is slated for Oct. 24-26. Admission is ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Baca calls the music he makes with his band the Hot Tamales a fusion of conjunto and zydeco. (Mariaelena Villarreal) Josh ...
The Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio kicks off today, May 15! This year’s festivities will continue till May 18. The festival showcases the best of Conjunto music, from iconic legends to ...
Famed Tejano singer-songwriter and master accordionist Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez has died. He was 86. Jiménez’s family shared the news of the musician’s death on his official Facebook page Thursday ...
SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...
Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is now offered as a fine-arts band credit in at least a dozen schools in the Valley and as far north as San Antonio. As the adage goes: If you want to preserve the ...