Mariachi music is a fount of culture, community, resistance and joy
Published: Oct. 07, 2024, 3:17 p.m., reminds us that mariachi music is a fount of culture, community, resistance and joy — not just for kitschy Mexican restaurants.
The family’s matriarch, Amalia , is only slightly beyond middle age. But her mind is slipping away, and she struggles to recognize her daughter Lucha and husband Federico . Federico works tirelessly to pay the bills with earnings from mariachi gigs, and Lucha hopes to find time to finish college. But her responsibility to look after her mother grows all-encompassing.
The show plays out the fairly familiar lets-get-a-band-together-and-play-a-show trope. If you’ve seen “The Blues Brothers,” you know it well. Along the way, playwright José Cruz González spins a web of cultural and family history that gives “American Mariachi” considerable warmth. Lucha must turn to her musician godfather, Mino , for lessons. In the process she learns why he and her father haven’t spoken in years, and gradually pieces together her family’s past.
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