For newcomers looking to differentiate Mexico’s Norteño music from Texas’ conjunto, look no further than the fits among Saturday and Sunday fans at Austin’s Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival. Attendees ...

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 ...

Everything is going fine until Lupe Saenz sees the CDs. I’m paying my check at a run-down diner in downtown Mercedes, a town of about 15,000 a little east of McAllen. Standing with me is Saenz, head ...

Linda Escobar, this week’s guest on Viva Tejano, is an absolute pillar in the world of tejano music. She is one of the defining female voices in conjunto and helped spread the music globally, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Local band Conjunto Philadelphia brings the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba to life, at venues across the area, including a standing gig at Bolo Restaurant in Rittenhouse every ...

For Jose Villanueva, instructing his music students involves teaching about history and culture as much as it includes lessons on melodies and scales. “I always talk to them about the origins of ...

In just six months, Tejano Conjunto fans from across the globe will head to Alamo City for the 44th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2026, the largest celebration of its kind in the ...

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, ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on Thursday night, his family announced. Flaco was born in San Antonio in ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hoehner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the stages of the world, becoming the music's greatest ambassador. Jimenez died ...