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A guitarrón player in a Mariachi uniform. A Mexican guitarrón player in a traditional Mariachi uniform. The guitarrón mexicano (Spanish for "big Mexican guitar", the suffix -ón being a Spanish augmentative) or Mexican guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar played traditionally in Mariachi groups.
thetexastornados .com. Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) [ 1] is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. Jiménez has been a solo performer and session musician, as well as a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven.
The Mexican twelve-string guitar, also known as a requinto-style or Sierreño-style guitar, is a modified twelve-string guitar. It can approximate the sound of a bajo sexto or bajo quinto and play regional Mexican styles, such as norteño, Tejano (Tex-Mex), and conjunto (música mexicana-tejana). In a traditional 12-string setup, the lower four ...
Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán is a Mexican folk ensemble of mariachi music founded in 1897 by Gaspar Vargas. Beginning in 1950 it was under the artistic guidance of the late Rubén Fuentes . The group's musical direction had been the responsibility of Don Jose "Pepe" Martínez from 1975 to around 2013-14.
details. 6 p.m. Sundays. Tomasita's. 500 S. Guadalupe Street. 505-983-5721; tomasitas.com. Mariachi Euforia: 505-204-2618. Mariachi Norteño: miguelitoromero.com. Romero, 67, who has been playing ...
Jarana jarocha. The jarana jarocha is a guitar -shaped fretted stringed instrument from the southern region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Typically strung with 8 strings in 5 courses, usually arranged in two single outer strings with three double-courses in between. The strings are usually nylon, although they were gut in the past.
Cirilo Marmolejo. Cirilo Marmolejo (1890–1960) was a Mexican folk musician of guitarrón and vihuela, and pioneer in the development of the mariachi band. Marmolejo was born in Teocaltiche. In 1918 he was invited to play at Guadalajara city, and then at Mexico City. From that time, the popularization of this type of band spread in the country.
Mariachi ( US: / ˌmɑːriˈɑːtʃi /, UK: / ˌmær -/, Spanish: [maˈɾjatʃi]) is an ensemble of musicians that typically play ranchera, the regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. [ 1] The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as ...