• Title: MARIACHI HIGH. ALSO, BORDER BRUJO.
• Host: Chelis López
• Additional Hosts: Samuel Orozco
• Date: THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012
• Description: MARIACHI HIGH. Zapata High School, in a small town on the Rio Grande in South Texas, is known for its big sound. The school’s mariachi ensemble Halcón Mariachi, has won awards for its musical virtuosity.
• Genre: News
• Location: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6704
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6704
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Art and Culture
• Year: 2012
• Program Name: la_120614.mp3
• Length: 59:05 minutes (54.09 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

MARIACHI HIGH. Zapata High School, in a small town on the Rio Grande in South Texas, is known for its big sound. The school’s mariachi ensemble Halcón Mariachi, has won awards for its musical virtuosity. A new PBS documentary about to premiere follows the mariacheros during a full school year.

ALSO, BORDER BRUJO. Also known as the Border Brujo, San Pocho Aztlaneca, Mexican't, or Charromántica, performance artist Guillermo Gómez Peña uses dozens of masks to serve as translator or coyote of ideas. Gómez Peña has performed throughout the world and writes in Spanglish, Gringoñol, bad French, and indigenous languages. News director Samuel Orozco recorded this interview with him during a recent visit to Fresno, where he met with other distinguished Latino MacArthur Fellows, known as the “MacArturos”, and performed “Strange Democracy”, which in his own words, reflects “on the post 9/11 era, the border wars and anti-immigration hysteria.”