How To Use Mariachi In A Sentence
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A pot-bellied Catrín (the male version, its name meaning "a dandy") clothed in mariachi garb holds a rooster; a small platoon of grinning Catrinas wear mermaid tails and bear flowers.
Catrina: Skeletons take over the art of Capula, Michoacan
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In mariachi music, stringed instruments are combined with trumpets.
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This man is Riders of Rebus who like a modern day mariachi emanates unpretentious, rocking pop tunes with spiky guitars and quirky melodies.
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It was four Hispanic guys dressed in full mariachi garb, head to toe.
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In Mexico, a mariachi band was strangulated and he stretched the skin of their bodies end to end covering the floor of his hovel.
Around the World
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The violin is an integral part of this musical group; one of the most best known violinists was Don Silvestre Vargas, founder of the world renowned Mariachi Vargas of Tecalitlan.
Modern sculpture of a mariachi musician in the Mariachi Museum in Cocula, Jalisco. The violin is an integral part of this musical group; one of the most best known violinists was Don Silvestre Vargas, founder of the world renowned Mariachi Vargas of Tecal
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El Mariachi : Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men.
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Chuck arrives to a fanfare of mariachi violins.
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Their most eclectic record to date, Sea Of No Cares is the result of the quartet experimenting with flamenco guitars and mariachi trumpets.
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Painted in rather garish hot pink and viridian green, the cluster includes a tortoise shell, a bass and trombone from a mariachi band, a gourd kalimba, a shark's jaw and a horse's tail.
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Hundreds of smaller celebrations took place across the country to the sounds of mariachi music, fireworks and with streets lined with Mexican flags.
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A mariachi was singing about the travails of life and working his guitar hard.
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At 2: 30 a.m., a Mexican breakfast was served, accompanied by the tunes of a 15-member mariachi ensemble.
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The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.
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Although usually connected with mariachi, rancheras are performed by all regional Mexican music ensembles.
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The folk hero was dressed like a Mexican mariachi, in a long black coat - with a big white 10-gallon hat added.
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The morning jolt of mariachi comes from Radio Bilingue, one of the nation's only public radio stations aimed at farmworkers.
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Members of the University of Texas Show Band will perform, as will mariachis from Brownsville.
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The peppy, cheerful mariachi band music piped into the room was really getting on his nerves.
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The mariachi is the sum of a cultural evolution that has taken place over the last century or so in Mexico.
What is the mariachi?
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All the mariachi player wanted to do was to be like his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather before him, but fate did not unfold as he had hoped.
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I always enjoyed a diverse mix growing up, from mariachi to roadhouse music.
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Another trademark of this religion is their really silly music which sounds like a cross between the polka and a Mexican Mariachi band on crank.
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Our neighbours appeared to be keeping several groups of mariachis in business, and by the time we had downed our third margarita, we were also addicted to the joyous local song, Camino de Guanajuato.
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The music is country, blues, folk mariachi, rockabilly and everything else you can think of.
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As you approach the hotel ballroom, you begin to hear the faint strains of a Mariachi band.
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The mariachi sound in the nineties is extremely different, with popular, classical, and pop ballads.
A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico
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His last successful trip outside his home was in March 2007, when six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered to greet him.
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The lively tunes of mariachis greeted well-heeled members of the Rienzi Society to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston house museum recently for that group's sixth annual dinner.
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Two artists nominated for a Grammy are also part of Voto Latino's 2012 celebrity coalition: the multiculti all-female ensemble Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea peep their latest album Orale and Cali-based norteño legends Los Tigres Del Norte.
Voto Latino: Voto Latino's Grammy Hits & Disses
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Aviaries with raucous jungle parrots outmatch the mariachis in volume and plumage.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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They teach vocal and choral music, marching-band music, orchestral music, and ethnic music forms such as mariachi.
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From the costumes of the patrons and the protestors to the ersatz Mariachi band (presumably a tip of the hat to Kahlo) strumming haplessly to patrons within the fenced in compound, costumes were the flavour of the night.
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The show closed with a rousing mariachi finale.
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Jason: Huh, I'm sorry guys but Mariachi music, that's all wrong for this evening.
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Then, a few months later on the site of several former horrid flyspecked delis that failed opens a Mariachi, a Mexican place.
From Hillbilly Highway to Gourmet Row
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Formed while they were still at school, this band of frenetic performers combine the wild sounds of ska, mariachi, polka, cumbia and hip-hop into one swirling dervish of sound and vision.
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Tapping on their own creative juices, native craftsmen began producing crude versions of the foreign instruments, eventually creating the vihuela, a small guitar akin to the laud, and a huge bass guitar known as the guitarrón, both of which remain as distinctive elements of modern day mariachi troupes.
Viva Mexico! Viva El Mariachi!
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The first film tells the story of a mariachi in the wrong place mistaken for someone else.
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There are chorizo-and-egg burritos in the morning, and mariachis on weekend nights, if that's your sort of thing.
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They are playing some evocative mariachi but I can't quite hear it clearly enough.
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Mexican jumping beans Los De Abajo followed with a frenetic performance of rock, salsa, mariachi and ska all rolled in to one.
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Their music is a weirdly wonderful post-rock fusion of TexMex rock and country blues, bebop jazz and exotic Mexican mariachi, loneliness and longing, Lee Hazlewood and Ennio Morricone.
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Not quite as slammed together as it's predecessors, '92's El Mariachi and '95's Desperado, but still majorly fun.
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But even love's lament is upbeat in mariachi, a musical genre bursting with the passion of Mexico.
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In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands.
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It is a custom to have a band or group of mariachis playing at this final ceremony.
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Looks like I might have a few mariachi and fresno peppers after all, and possibly some ancho poblano.
The secret life of my bell pepper
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And then you get to feast on the best Mexican food the desert has to offer at our Fiesta Dinner, complete with mariachis!
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Maybe you already know this but mariachi is not a generic term for all Mexican music.
Mexico's Mariachi Museum needs music
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The mariachis were swinging, the margaritas were chilling, the River Walk was overflowing.
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There are other stories - the mariachis who play beautiful sad songs for you as you sit and drink beer in the plaza.
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They are chairing the Institute of Hispanic Culture's presentation Saturday of world-renowned mariachi Vargas de Taclitlán.
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While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
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Dear Polack-Honky: I think what you think is mariachi is actually conjunto norteño, which is the Mexican music form that most approximates traditional polka--mostly because that's what it is.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'?
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It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
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The word "mariachi" is believed to have originated in their language.
Sixteenth century indigenous Jalisco
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The trademark guitars can still get in a strop, but mariachi horns and orchestral flourishes evoke Cinerama's widescreen dramas.
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Like an old ethnography, the film's musical smackdowns are rich in cultural and racial stereotypes: Mexicans play a mariachi, Africans beat drums, a Thai man plays a mournful oriental flute.
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We use triggers, calls from the drums or the trumpets, like with mariachis.
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According to the guide book, there were also mariachi groups that had many permanent fans.
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As the 16-member ensemble launches into a particularly romantic song, local high school mariachi teacher John Contreras rocks rhythmically nearby, a small vihuela (an instrument similar to a guitar) at his side.
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The mariachis packed away their instruments, the stage was torn apart, and the sound system that was to have brought the PRI's ‘Fiesta of Triumph’ to the nation was dismantled.
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During the period of study, the mariachis performed at the Arizona State Senate, the International Mariachi Festival, and numerous local concerts.
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Guests there, as well educated and self respected people do, arrive at the party not less than an hour late, have the best of times with a good mariachi or trío, dance and disorder, soul and song, only to say goodnight when they feel like it, not worrying at all at unmeaningful details like hours and clocks.
Mexican Punctuality
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On the first weekend in December, La Fiesta de Tumacacori celebrates regional culture with native crafts, foods, and a mariachi mass.
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While in Mexico he heard a mariachi tune called ‘Frenesi.’
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I thought casting Enrique Iglesias as a mariachi was pretty clever too, though I would totally get that mole removed if I were him.
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But when he goes down to the valley, it's the same two sentences in Spanish, and then they cue the mariachis.
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On 24th Street, youngsters dressed in red lounge on the steps of McDonald's, unmindful of wandering mariachis, Christians proselytizing in Spanish and old women selling roses and tamales.
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Salsa without drums and horns, tejano without accordion and guitars, mariachi without trumpets would become something else.
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It's the warm, slow joy of the mariachi-tinged Stranded, the tick-tock twang of Blue As Your Blood or the pre-rock'n'roll balladry of Torch Song that come to define this album's charms, and very considerable those are too.
The Walkmen: Lisbon - review
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The band starts playin’ some mariachi and a hot mama steps onto the dance floor.
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This is my family," he said, a trickle of laughter spilling from Cecilia and Leonardo as I looked at the group of pigs in mariachi garb on one side of the fan.
Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan
