“It’s the longest competition of its kind anywhere in the world.”
Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday at the Lila Cockrell Theatre in San Antonio. This year marks the national mariachi festival’s 28th year.On a recent afternoon, Osvaldo Chacon, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio, picked up his classical guitar and sang a melodic song from famous Mexican singer Luis Miguel.
“Many of the students are from the San Antonio area,” Muñoz said. “This year, there’s so many students from Kyle, Seguin, San Marcos and San Antonio and that’s says a lot about the mariachi programs in the region. They’re becoming stronger and more competitive. This is good. This is really good.” “I’m Mexican and I have it in my blood,” said Gianna Gonzalez, a 14-year-old freshman at St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Cibolo, a city in the San Antonio metro region. “It connects me to people from my past, like ancestors, and to what their culture is.”
Gianna said she practices in a home studio. “I feel like I have a very good song that is comfortable to me,” Gianna said. “The lyrics calms me. It’s like a prayer for me. So, I’ll be praying on stage.”Nearby, Chacon, who was wearing hiswith the blue-and-orange colors of his UTSA, said he was raised in the small border town of Del Rio as well as Ciudad Acuña, a city in the Mexican state of Coahuila.
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