Mariachi Music Education
The Mariachi Women’s Foundation has two programs that support mariachi music education. First, is the Youth Mariachi Pathways program which provides holistic mariachi music education that promotes the use of cultural assets as a springboard for personal, social, educational and career development. Second, is the Mariachi Women’s Music Institute which provides mariachi women with opportunities to teach mariachi music to both youth and community. Learn more about both of these music education programs below!
Youth Mariachi Pathways
The Youth Mariachi Pathways (YMP) program provides holistic mariachi music education with the intent to support the use of cultural assets as a springboard for personal, social, educational and career development. The YMP program has 5 components:
1) Youth Mariachi Showcase
2) Mariachi instruction for Schools & Community
3) Mariachi Femenil for Girls
4) Mariachi College and Career Conference
Mariachi Women’s
Music Institute
The Mariachi Women’s Music Institute provides teaching opportunities for mariachi women. As women outnumber men, the role of women in mariachi cultural maintenance is increasingly important. Trumpeter Cindy Shea of the two-time Grammy winning Mariachi Divas and Laura Macias of Mexico’s Mariachi Innovación Mexicana will lead the institute in 2023 by teaching the Mariachi Workshops for the Los Angeles Unified School District students in 2023 and in other Mariachi Women Foundation’s programs such as the Mariachi Pathways “Mariachi Femenil for Girls.”