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Students from Los Cenzontles have visited parts of Mexico where the music they're learning originated. Rodriguez says they learned that many of the indigenous folk traditions — corridos, rancheras, and old-style mariachi music — were dying out and are no longer being played by Mexicans themselves.
Source: tatoeba (12279608)
At her first performance with an all-male mariachi, the oldest member said to the musical director,[…](No! I've never played with a woman; I'm not going to start now [my translation]).
Source: wiktionary
2004, "Mariachi," entry in Cordelia Candelaria, Peter J. García, Arturo J. Aldama (editors), Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, Volume 2, page 520, Today Plaza Garibaldi near the center of Mexico City is considered the home of mariachis, where mariachi musicians congregate in the plaza, waiting for patrons and tourists to audition them and invite them to perform. […] Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán has been considered the premier Mexican mariachi for nearly a century.
Source: wiktionary
The mariachis would serenade / and they would not shut up till they were paid.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include decorative, ensemble, festive, folkloric, group.
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