Mariachi

The music and the men who play it. Plaza Garibaldi, Cocula and Tecalitlán, the violins, vihuela, guitarrón and the trumpet that only arrived in the 1930s, and the traje de charro that arrived with it. The French "mariage" etymology is disproven: a priest complained about mariachis in 1852, a decade before the French did.

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128 moments in this segment.

1942 - El Balajú. Jorge Negrete 1942. Jorge Negrete sings El Balajú in 1942. The singing charro was a film archetype that carried mariachi to audiences across Latin America.
1944 - MÚSICA MEXICANA: Las Hermanas Padilla / Confesión / Columbia / 1944. Las Hermanas Padilla recorded Confesión for Columbia in 1944. Sister duets were a mainstay of Mexican commercial recording before the solo ranchera star took over.
1946 - No Basta Ser Charro (1946) - PELÍCULA COMPLETA | Jorge Negrete | CINE DE ORO | Canela.TV. No Basta Ser Charro, a 1946 feature with Jorge Negrete. Golden Age cinema fixed the mariachi image at exactly the moment the trumpet and the traje de charro had become standard.
1949 - Jalisco Canta en Sevilla (1949) con Jorge Negrete y Carmen Sevilla | Película Completa | Canela.TV. Jalisco Canta en Sevilla, a 1949 co-production pairing Jorge Negrete with Carmen Sevilla. The film exported the Jalisco charro image directly to Spain.
1950 - José Alfredo Jiménez - Bohemio De Mi Barrio - Columbia 2049-C. The Frontera Collection at UCLA publishes José Alfredo Jiménez singing Bohemio De Mi Barrio from a Columbia disc. The archive digitises Mexican and Mexican American commercial records that no label catalogue preserved.
1952 - Jorge Negrete - el coleadero, (Hay un niño en su futuro 1952) A COLOR. Jorge Negrete performs el coleadero in a 1952 picture, presented in colour. The coleada is one of the nine suertes of charrería, the tradition mariachi borrowed its suit from.
1952 - Quihubo cuando. Jorge Negrete y Trío Calaveras 1952. Jorge Negrete performs with the Trío Calaveras in 1952. Negrete died in December 1953, eleven months after marrying María Félix.
1954 - Voz de Amalia Mendoza - Maldición ranchera (1954). Amalia Mendoza recorded Maldición ranchera in 1954. The sob in the delivery is a deliberate technique of the ranchera style rather than a lapse.
1955 - NO VOLVERE (1955 Completa) - PEDRO INFANTE. Pedro Infante performs No Volveré in 1955. Infante died on 15 April 1957, at the height of the Golden Age.
1958 - AMALIA MENDOZA: "Échame a mí la culpa", 1958. Amalia Mendoza sings Échame a mí la culpa in 1958. Mendoza was known as la Tariácuri after the Purépecha lord, a name taken from her family's stage act.
1965 - Cucurrucucú Paloma - Lola Beltrán 1965. Lola Beltrán sings Cucurrucucú Paloma in 1965. Beltrán was among the first women to hold the ranchera stage on equal terms with the singing charros.
1975 - Lola Beltrán -CUCURRUCUCU PALOMA- , 1975.. A 1975 performance of Cucurrucucú Paloma by Lola Beltrán. Television variety programmes are where most surviving footage of ranchera singers comes from.
1981 - Lola Beltrán -CUCURRUCUCU PALOMA- , 1981.. Lola Beltrán sings Cucurrucucú Paloma in a 1981 television appearance. Tomás Méndez wrote the song, and Beltrán's reading became the reference version.
1985 - Lola Beltrán - Cucurrucucú paloma (En vivo en el Palacio de Bellas Artes, 1976). Lola Beltrán performs Cucurrucucú Paloma live at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Juan Gabriel became the first non-classical act to play that hall in 1990, which marks how unusual a popular booking there was.
1990 - Lola Beltrán en Bellas Artes -CUCURRUCUCU PALOMA-, 1990..VOB. Lola Beltrán at Bellas Artes in 1990. She was billed as Lola la Grande and sang with full mariachi rather than orchestra.
1995 - Amalia Mendoza La Tariácuri - ECHAME A MI LA CULPA - 1995 -.. Amalia Mendoza performs Échame a mí la culpa in 1995, decades after her first recording of it. Ranchera singers kept working the same repertoire across whole careers.
1997 - (1997) Aida Y Carlos Cuevas ¡En Vivo! con el Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez. Aída Cuevas and Carlos Cuevas perform live with Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez in 1997. Aída Cuevas has been called the queen of ranchera music and began recording as a teenager.
1998 - Aída Cuevas -SERENATA HUASTECA- , 1998 .. Aída Cuevas sings Serenata Huasteca in 1998. The huasteco repertoire sits beside the Jalisco material in most working mariachi books.
1998 - Aída Cuevas -HUAPANGO TORERO- , 1998.. Aída Cuevas performs Huapango Torero in 1998. The huapango is a fast triple-metre form the mariachi absorbed from the Huasteca.
2007-05-27 - El llano grande, son jalisciense tradicional antiguo. El llano grande performed as an old traditional son jalisciense. The son is the form that mariachi grew out of during the nineteenth century.
2009-08-29 - Desfile Festival del Mariachi y la Charreria -Guadalajara 2009-. The 2009 mariachi and charrería parade in Guadalajara filmed at length. The pairing of the two traditions in one festival reflects their shared costume history.
2010-10-04 - Conversando con Cristina Pacheco - Chavela Vargas. Cristina Pacheco interviews Chavela Vargas for Canal Once. Vargas was born in Costa Rica in 1919, emigrated to Mexico at seventeen and took Mexican citizenship.
2010-12-29 - Mariachi Tradicional Arredondo -BLANCA PALOMITA- Jul-2006-..mpg. Mariachi Tradicional Arredondo perform Blanca Palomita, recorded in 2006. Village ensembles of this kind are where the pre-commercial sound survived.
2011-03-23 - Ana Bárbara "No sé que voy hacer ". Ana Bárbara performs No sé qué voy a hacer. Her catalogue sits in the ranchera line that runs back through Lola Beltrán and Amalia Mendoza.
2011-06-23 - Mariachi Tradicional Los Tios. Smithsonian Folklife records Mariachi Tradicional Los Tios. The string-only lineup of guitars, harps and violins is the older configuration that the Golden Age recordings displaced.
2011-11-24 - El Mariachi, música de cuerdas, canto y trompeta. UNESCO's own film for the 2011 inscription, whose official title is Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet, reference 00575. Naming the trumpet in the title of a heritage listing is telling, because the instrument only entered the ensemble during commercialisation in the 1930s.
2011-12-01 - Mariachi patrimonio cultural de la humanidad Coyoacán. Mariachi as cultural heritage of humanity, filmed in Coyoacán in 2011. The listing was celebrated in Mexico City as much as in Jalisco.
2012 - Night at Garibaldi. The square photographed from the tequila museum. Plaza Garibaldi, Mexico City, 2012. Mariachis have waited for hire on this square since the 1920s and are paid by the song.
2012 - Fonoteca del INAH 55 El Son Mariachero de La Negra D2 2012 Disco Completo. A Fonoteca del INAH session on El Son Mariachero de La Negra. La Negra is the piece most people can hum without knowing it is a son jalisciense rather than a modern composition.
2012-09-01 - UNESCO declarará al Mariachi como Patrimonio Cultural. Milenio Jalisco reports on the UNESCO declaration. Jalisco has the strongest claim to the tradition and its press covered the listing as a state matter.
2012-09-02 - Inicia con desfile el Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería en Guadalajara. Milenio reports the parade opening the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería. The procession moves through central Guadalajara on horseback.
2012-09-15 - 15-09-2012 Mariachi Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Humanidad. Bloque 7-7. A political analysis programme discusses mariachi's heritage status in September 2012. Heritage designation carries obligations to safeguard a practice rather than only to celebrate it.
2013-05-12 - Reportaje "Un día con Mariachis". A report following mariachis through a working day. Musicians in Plaza Garibaldi are hired by the song, which shapes the repertoire they keep ready.
2013-09-01 - Festival (Desfile) del mariachi Guadalajara 01-09-2013. The 2013 mariachi festival parade through Guadalajara. Ensembles from several countries march alongside Mexican groups.
2013-10-08 - El son del relámpago - Mariachi Tradicional los Choznos en Un Canto a Jalisco. Mariachi Tradicional los Choznos play El son del relámpago. The son jalisciense is the form the modern mariachi evolved out of during the nineteenth century.
2013-12-11 - Mariachi Tradicional de Jalisco: Los Choznos.. Los Choznos play as a traditional mariachi of Jalisco. The group works with harp and without trumpet, which is the older configuration.
2014-01-22 - Maestro JONATHAN CLARK | Su Historia de Mariachi- Entrevista Entera | con MIA PEREZ. A long interview with Jonathan Clark on the history of mariachi. Clark is among the researchers who documented the string-only ensembles that predate the trumpet.
2014-07-22 - dTodo - Plaza Garibaldi (21/07/2014). An earlier Canal Once visit to Plaza Garibaldi in 2014. The government renovated the square in 2010, which changed the working conditions of the musicians who hire out there.
2014-08-19 - La historia detrás del traje de charro/ Titulares. Excélsior reports on the history behind the traje de charro. The suit is hacienda horsemen's dress, adopted by mariachi groups during the 1930s rather than worn by them from the start.
2014-11-08 - Tata Dios. Miguel Aceves Mejía sings Tata Dios. The label-run channel is the only route by which these mid-century recordings are legitimately available.
2015-03-24 - Los otros mexicanos - José Hernández (19/03/2015). Canal Once profiles José Hernández, who directs Mariachi Sol de México, in Los otros mexicanos. The programme follows the tradition as it is carried on by musicians working in the United States.
2015-06-03 - La Huerta 2015 Mañanitas en Honor a La Virgen de Guadalupe, Mariachi Ilusión. Mañanitas sung to the Virgin of Guadalupe by mariachi at La Huerta in 2015. Mariachi at dawn on 12 December is one of the tradition's fixed annual duties.
2015 - The car at the Pedro Infante museum. An automobile on display at the museum to the singer. Photographed 2015. Infante was a singer and film star who died in an air crash at Mérida in April 1957.
2015 - The charro calavera. A skeleton figure in charro dress during the capital's Day of the Dead procession. Mexico City, 2015. The charro outfit reads as national costume, which is a twentieth-century arrangement.
2015 - The Pedro Infante cultural centre. The centre opened on the Cuajimalpa esplanade after an investment of 15 million pesos, built to promote culture and the singer's life and work. Mexico City, 2015. Infante was born in Mazatlán in 1917.
2015 - Mariachis at Xochimilco. Musicians aboard a boat, playing to visitors on the canals. Xochimilco, Mexico City, 2015. The trajinera hires a mariachi boat that pulls alongside and plays by the song.
2015-07-21 - Bala Perdida. Miguel Aceves Mejía sings Bala Perdida. It was Aceves Mejía who reported that José Alfredo Jiménez initially played no instrument at all.
2015-08-26 - Mariachi Tradicional VIDA y TRADICION "La Alegría". A traditional mariachi called Vida y Tradición plays La Alegría. Cocula in Jalisco is most often named as the birthplace of the modern form, though Colima, Nayarit and Michoacán also claim origins.
2015-11-13 - ENTREVISTA, Salón Tenampa, 90 Aniversario. An interview marking the ninetieth anniversary of the Salón Tenampa. The venue drew musicians from Cocula and fixed Garibaldi as the trade's hiring place.
2016-05-27 - Alejandro Fernández, Es la Mujer, Festival de Viña del Mar 2015 HD 1080p. Alejandro Fernández sings Es la Mujer at Viña del Mar in 2015, from the festival's own channel. Festival broadcasters hold the rights to their stages, which makes them a clean source for live performance.
2016 - El Bebeto at the palenque. The singer performing in the round to a seated crowd. Photographed 16 September 2016. A palenque was built for cockfighting, and the ring became a concert venue in which the singer stands at the centre with the audience all around.
2016 - The palenque ring. The stage in the middle of the circular arena during the concert. 16 September 2016. Palenque dates are the backbone of the touring circuit for Mexican regional music.
2016 - Singing in the round. El Bebeto performing at the palenque on Independence eve. 16 September 2016. The night of 15 to 16 September is when the country marks the grito.
2016 - The crowd at the palenque. The audience banked around the ring during the concert. 16 September 2016. Palenques are usually built inside the grounds of a regional fair.
2016 - The band on the ring floor. Musicians accompanying the singer in the arena. 16 September 2016. Banda and mariachi share repertoire, and singers cross between the two line-ups.
2016 - Under the lights. The concert in progress at the palenque. 16 September 2016. The circular stage means the singer must turn continuously through the set.
2016 - The set continues. Performance at the palenque on the Independence date. 16 September 2016. Regional Mexican music fills the fair circuit from spring through autumn.
2016 - The palenque concert. El Bebeto performing at the palenque. 16 September 2016. The venue form is Mexican and has no real equivalent elsewhere.
2016 - Thinking about Guadalajara. An album sleeve photographed at home by a listener. 2016. Guadalajara is where mariachi became a professional urban music in the twentieth century.
2016 - Juan Gabriel's funeral at Bellas Artes. The homage to the singer and songwriter held at the Palace of Fine Arts. Mexico City, 2016. Juan Gabriel wrote for and sang with mariachi throughout his career, and he died in August 2016.
2016 - Present and past. A scene at the Plaza de la Paz. Guanajuato, 2016. Guanajuato's callejoneadas are led by estudiantinas, a different serenading tradition from mariachi.
2016-07-25 - En vivo Tristes recuerdos , Flor de Capomo , Cruz de Madera - Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlán. Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlán perform live on their own channel. Women's ensembles are a comparatively recent development in a tradition whose commercial image was built entirely on men.
2016-08-28 - #Desfile Encuentro Internacional de #Mariachi y la Charrería 2016. The 2016 Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi parade filmed at length. Charrería was itself inscribed by UNESCO in 2016 under the title Charrería, equestrian tradition in Mexico.
2016-09-05 - Documental Las Mujeres Mariachi. A documentary on women in mariachi. The traje de charro and the trumpet made mariachi a male image in the 1930s, and female ensembles have been pushing against that ever since.
2016-09-16 - Entrevista a Chavela Vargas (Completa). A full interview with Chavela Vargas. She sang rancheras written for men without changing the pronouns, which was itself the statement.
2017-01-25 - Popurrí Pérez Prado. Mariachi Gama 1000 perform a Pérez Prado medley. The mambo arrangements show how far a commercial mariachi's book extends beyond son and ranchera.
2017-01-25 - Rogaciano. Miguel Aceves Mejía sings Rogaciano, distributed through his label's channel. Aceves Mejía was known for the falsete, the high break that became a ranchera signature.
2017-01-25 - Popurrí Colombiano. Mariachi Gama 1000 play a Colombian medley, distributed through the label channel. Working ensembles keep repertoire far outside the Jalisco canon because clients request it.
2017-05-23 - El Mariachi/Documental. A documentary treatment of the mariachi tradition. The ensemble that people picture, with trumpet and traje de charro, is roughly a 1930s construction.
2017 - Charrería at San Marcos. A charreada during the Feria Nacional de San Marcos. Aguascalientes, 2017. The San Marcos fair has run since the 1820s and is the largest in the country.
2017 - A charro at rest. The dress and harness of a rider between rounds of the competition. Chichimequillas, El Marqués, Querétaro, 2017. The suit, the hat and the saddle are all judged as part of the event.
2017 - Floreo de reata. A rider making figures with the rope, which is spun and shaped rather than thrown. Photographed 2017. The reata is twisted from ixtle fibre taken from maguey, agave or lechuguilla.
2017-10-19 - CHAVELA VARGAS: La mujer que desafió a su época | Cantoras | Encuentro. Canal Encuentro profiles Chavela Vargas in its Cantoras series. Vargas lived in Mexico for over seventy years and died at 93 in Cuernavaca in 2012.
2018-05-25 - 25 Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería 2018. NotimexTV covers the twenty-fifth Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería in 2018. The state news agency treated the festival as national cultural news.
2018-06-07 - Ana Bárbara - Tu Ingratitud. Ana Bárbara's Tu Ingratitud on her label channel. The mariachi backing here is the standardised postwar lineup rather than the older string-only group.
2018-09-12 - #SABORAMÉXICO La historia detrás del traje de Mariachi. ¡Aquí te lo contamos todo!. A television segment on the history behind the mariachi suit. The braid, the botonadura and the wide tie all come from charro dress codes with their own rules.
2018-10-19 - Reportaje cronica de john lópez sobre mariachis. A short journalistic chronicle about mariachis. The trade is a livelihood before it is a heritage listing, and the two frames sit uneasily together.
2019-05-10 - Ana Bárbara - Que Poca (Video Oficial). Ana Bárbara releases Que Poca. Contemporary ranchera keeps the mariachi ensemble while writing to modern pop song structures.
2019 - The mariachi sombrero. The wide Jalisco hat known as the mariachi sombrero, worn for dance at the Zacatecas cultural festival. 2019. The traje de charro that goes with it was fixed as mariachi dress in the 1930s, not before.
2019 - The pass of death. The most dangerous move in charrería, in which the charro crosses from his own horse to a bare-backed mare at full gallop. Photographed 2019. Charrería was inscribed by UNESCO in 2016.
2019 - The mariachi statue at Garibaldi. A sculpture of a mariachi player on the square. Mexico City, 2019. Mariachi and the string music of the Mexican centre were inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.
2019-08-05 - Encuentro mariachi tradicional | Gobierno de Jalisco. The Jalisco state government films a traditional mariachi gathering. Traditional ensembles use strings only, which is what the group sounded like before the trumpet arrived.
2019-08-29 - Bailé en el encuentro internacional de Mariachi, Guadalajara 2019.. A dancer's record of performing at the 2019 Guadalajara mariachi gathering. The festival includes folk dance alongside the ensembles.
2019-09-27 - Natalia Lafourcade ofrecerá el concierto 'Un canto por México' | Las Estrellas. A news item announcing Lafourcade's Un Canto por México concert. The programme reworked Mexican standards with traditional ensembles rather than pop arrangements.
2019-12-24 - De Qué Me Sirve El Cielo 🌤 - Omar Chaparro [Video Oficial]. Omar Chaparro releases De Qué Me Sirve El Cielo through JN Music Group. Actors crossing into ranchera repeats a pattern the Golden Age established with Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante.
2020-05-10 - Natalia Lafourcade - Concierto Desde Casa | Un Canto Por México. Natalia Lafourcade performs a home concert for Un Canto por México in 2020. The project raised money to rebuild the Son Jarocho Documentation Centre damaged in the 2017 earthquakes.
2020-05-19 - Historia del Traje de Charro. A history of the traje de charro, the suit mariachi wear. The costume comes from charrería, the hacienda horsemanship tradition, and mariachi adopted it during the 1930s Golden Age rather than inheriting it.
2020-06-06 - Antonio Aguilar - El Alazán y el Rocío. Discos Musart publishes Antonio Aguilar singing El Alazán y el Rocío. Aguilar built an act combining ranchera singing with horsemanship, which tied the music back to its charro origins.
2020 - Cocula, cradle of the mariachi. The plaza at the entrance to the town, which calls itself the world cradle of mariachi. Cocula, Jalisco, 2020. The French mariage etymology is disproven: a letter found in 1981 shows a priest complaining about mariachis in 1852, a decade before the French arrived.
2020-06-20 - MUNDO VIVE Video Oficial MARIACHI NUEVO TECALITLÁN. Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán release an official video. Tecalitlán in Jalisco gave its name to the most influential ensemble in the tradition and to several successors.
2020-09-16 - Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN): Mariachi sinfónico / INBAL / México. The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional performs a symphonic mariachi programme for INBAL. Rubén Fuentes, hired as arranger by Silvestre Vargas in 1958, is the figure who standardised the repertoire enough for orchestral treatment.
2020-11-27 - 2011 la Unesco registra en el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad La Música del Mariachi. A report on UNESCO adding mariachi music to the intangible heritage list in 2011. Recognition arrived roughly eighty years after the trumpet and the traje de charro fixed the ensemble's modern shape.
2021-01-04 - Vicente Fernandez Un Azteca En El Azteca Concierto Completo. Vicente Fernández performs a full concert at the Estadio Azteca. Fernández was known as Chente and as el Rey de la Música Ranchera, and recorded over 100 albums.
2021-01-26 - Festival Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería 2019 - Desfile. The parade at the 2019 Festival Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería. The charro parade through Guadalajara is the event's public face.
2021-02-27 - La Triste e Inspiradora Historia de Chavela Vargas | Documental. A documentary account of Chavela Vargas' life. José Alfredo Jiménez backed her 1961 debut Noche Bohemia, and Pedro Almodóvar later promoted her in Europe.
2021-03-20 - Natalia Lafourcade presenta 'Un Canto por México' (Entrevista). Natalia Lafourcade discusses Un Canto por México. She has 20 Latin Grammys, described in 2025 as the most by any female artist, and has funded restoration of Veracruz music institutions.
2021-04-11 - Documental Chavela Vargas en Canal+. A Canal+ documentary on Chavela Vargas. She returned to performing in 1991 after fifteen years lost to alcoholism, and debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2003 at the age of 83.
2021-08-12 - Ana Bárbara - Amor Y Veneno (Video Oficial). Ana Bárbara releases Amor y Veneno on her own channel. She is among the singers who kept ranchera commercially current through the 2000s and 2010s.
2021-08-24 - Antonio Aguilar - El Patas Blancas (Letras Oficial). Discos Musart publishes Antonio Aguilar's El Patas Blancas. The label holds the catalogue and posts it directly, which is the only clean source for recordings of this period.
2021-09-12 - Mariachi tradicional Los Pitayeros - Circuito Raíz México. Cultura Jalisco records Los Pitayeros, a traditional mariachi, for its Circuito Raíz México series. Traditional groups in Jalisco kept the harp where commercial ensembles replaced it with the guitarrón.
2021-09-16 - ¡Achis, achis!... Los primeros mariachis. The Fonoteca Nacional devotes a long session to the first mariachis. The French mariage etymology is disproven and dateably so: a letter found in 1981 records a priest complaining about mariachis in 1852, over a decade before the French arrived.
2021-09-26 - Mariachi Camargo. Miradas que construyen, jóvenes construyendo el futuro (26/09/2021). Canal Once films Mariachi Camargo in a series about young people building futures. Mariachi is taught in conservatories and municipal schools now, which is a recent change in how the repertoire passes on.
2021-12-17 - Vicente y Alejandro Fernández en concierto 14 oct 2003 1ª parte. Vicente and Alejandro Fernández perform together in October 2003. The pairing of father and son on one stage marked the ranchera succession in public.
2021-12-27 - Mariachi Nuevo Sol San Jerónimo Jalisco 27 Dic 2021. Mariachi Nuevo Sol play at San Jerónimo in Jalisco in December 2021. Village patronal fiestas are the steadiest employment in the trade.
2022-02-24 - Proceso de fabricación de vihuela marca ARCE. The making of a vihuela in a Mexican luthier's workshop. Instrument building keeps the ensemble supplied and is a trade in its own right in Paracho and Guadalajara.
2022-03-31 - D Todo - Recorrido por Garibaldi (31/03/2022). Canal Once's D Todo tours Plaza Garibaldi in 2022. Around 2,500 union-card holders worked the square regularly as of 2010, with up to 4,000 circulating on busy weekends.
2022-04-15 - Construcción de una Vihuela Mexicana en 5 minutos (montaje completo). A vihuela built from start to finish in a Mexican workshop. The instrument's curved back is what gives the mariachi its particular rhythmic bite.
2022-05-20 - Fragmento del día en que la Unesco nombro al Mariachi como Patrimonio de la Humanidad. A fragment from the day UNESCO named mariachi as intangible heritage in 2011. The inscription covers the music, the song and the ensemble rather than any single group.
2022-08-26 - Guadalajara celebra la edición 20 del Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería. Agencia EFE covers the twentieth Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi in Guadalajara in 2022. The Spanish news agency treats the festival as international cultural news.
2022-09-24 - 📺#EnEscena: ¡Disfruta del Mariachi Gama 1000 en #concierto de #FiestasPatrias. Mariachi Gama 1000 play a full concert broadcast by a regional channel. Broadcast concerts are how working ensembles reach audiences beyond the plaza.
2022-11-27 - El Mariachi, Patrimonio inmaterial de la Humanidad según el UNESCO (2). A second look at mariachi as intangible heritage under UNESCO. The inscription's own wording names string music, song and trumpet as the three components.
2023-04-14 - Alejandro Fernández - Presentación Completa - Festival de Viña del Mar 2023 - Full HD 1080p. Alejandro Fernández performs a full set at the Festival de Viña del Mar in 2023, published by the festival. Mexican ranchera has been a fixture of the Chilean festival for decades.
2023-06-10 - Cómo colocar el sistema una vihuela en 7 sencillos pasos. A luthier demonstrates fitting the string system on a vihuela. The vihuela is the small round-backed five-string guitar that gives the mariachi its rhythmic core.
2024-01-16 - La Historia Detrás Del Mito | José Alfredo Jiménez. A biography of José Alfredo Jiménez. He was born in Dolores Hidalgo in 1926 and died in Mexico City in 1973 at 47, and his tomb is shaped as a sarape and sombrero.
2024-10-22 - Los Laureles. Miguel Aceves Mejía sings Los Laureles, a standard of the Jalisco repertoire. The song predates the singer and belongs to the son tradition mariachi absorbed.
2025-03-28 - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán - La Malagueña (En Vivo). Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán play La Malagueña live. The group has appeared in over 200 films, which is how the ensemble sound reached audiences who never saw one in person.
2025-04-25 - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán - La Bikina/Sabes Una Cosa (En Vivo). Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán play La Bikina live, posted by their label. Gaspar Vargas founded the group in the late 1890s and it made its first recording in 1937.
2025-08-07 - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán - Sones Jaliscienses (En Vivo). Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán perform sones jaliscienses. The son jalisciense is the regional form the group's repertoire grew from before the standardisation of the 1950s.
2025-09-07 - 100 años del Salón Tenampa en Garibaldi l El ADN de la historia. A report marking a century of the Salón Tenampa in Plaza Garibaldi. The cantina opened in the 1920s and is the reason mariachis began gathering in that square at all.
2025-09-12 - La Historia detras del mito - Chabela Vargas (Completo) TV Azteca🇲🇽 2012. A television biography of Chavela Vargas broadcast in 2012, the year she died at 93 in Cuernavaca. She was called la voz áspera de la ternura, the rough voice of tenderness.
2025-11-08 - Santiago Fuentes – El Último Adiós | Ranchera Romántica 2025 | Música Mexicana. Santiago Fuentes releases a ranchera on his own official channel in 2025. New artists continue to record with mariachi backing rather than treating it as a period style.
2026-01-14 - Juan Gabriel - Hasta Que Te Conocí (Popurrí) | (En Vivo [Caracas, Venezuela - 1990]) 🔥. Juan Gabriel performs a medley live, published on his official channel. He wrote about 1,800 songs and Amor Eterno entered the United States National Recording Registry in 2024.
2026-02-27 - Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán - Popurrí Jose Alfredo Jimenez (Video Oficial). Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán perform a José Alfredo Jiménez medley for their label. Jiménez wrote over 1,000 songs and by Miguel Aceves Mejía's account began with no formal musical training.
2026-05-26 - Presentan detalles del Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería 2026. Organisers present the 2026 Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería. The festival pairs the music with the horsemanship it borrowed its costume from.
2026 - Pedro Infante's house in Narvarte. The neo-colonial house in the colonia where the singer lived. Mexico City, 2026. Infante made more than sixty films between 1939 and 1957.
2026-08-27 - Así fue el INCIO DEL ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DEL MARIACHI EN GUADALAJARA 2026. The opening of the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi in Guadalajara in 2026. The festival brings ensembles from across the Americas to the state that claims the tradition.
2026-08-29 - Así fue - Mariachi Los Camperos de Jesús Chuy Guzmán | Encuentro del Mariachi 2026.. Mariachi Los Camperos of Jesús Chuy Guzmán at the 2026 Encuentro. Los Camperos are among the ensembles that carried the tradition into the United States.
2026-09-06 - Entrevista a Amalia Mendoza, “la Tariácuri”. The Fonoteca Nacional's interview with Amalia Mendoza, known as la Tariácuri. The national sound archive holds the interviews with ranchera singers that commercial catalogues never kept.