District’s Mariachi Acero to Host Free End-of-Year Concert on Tuesday, April 30

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The Mariachi Acero invited the community for the performance of the year! The award-winning group will host its annual end-of-year concert.

Click on the image to view or download the flyer in English and Spanish.

Mariachi Acero Concert

Tuesday, April 30
Starting at 6:30 p.m.
Free Admission — Donations Accepted
Carver High School — School Auditorium
2100 South Victory Street
Houston, TX 77088

Mariachi Acero is wrapping up a very successful year. It earned Sweepstakes in the Texas UIL Region Mariachi Contest, the first time the mariachi group advanced to the state-level mariachi contest. At the State UIL Contest in late February, Mariachi Acero received a 2nd Division Rating and seven outstanding medals for the best violin section. The group also played at the Mariachi Region Concert in March.

The showcase features some of the most talented students in the state.

Below is a sample of the Mariachi Acero concert setlist of classics such as:

Por un amor
Sabor a mí
Bonito Tecalitlán

Mariachi Acero

The district’s first mariachi student group ensemble, Acero, started in 2019 and is housed at Carver High School, where the mariachi program is offered to district students. While still relatively new, the award-winning mariachi students are wowing audiences with their talent, including playing at the HoustonRodeo’ss GoTejano’ss Mariachi Invitational at the Arena Theatre in 2020 and more recently at the Mariachi Region Concert in March.

Mariachi Brief History

Mariachi music is an unmistakable symbol of Mexico and Mexican culture throughout the world. There are Mariachi ensembles in many places worldwide, including the UK, Croatia, Ecuador, Egypt, and Sweden, not to mention Mexico and the United States. Mariachi music has origins deep in Mexican history. The sound of its string instruments and its oldest rhythms are rooted in Mexico’ss colonial times (1519-1810); people from Spain and enslaved Africans and their descendants mingled with hundreds of Mexico’s indigenous cultures to create a new Mexican culture marked by many regions, each with its own signature musical tradition. The music was called “mariachi” as early as the 1850s. UNESCO inscribed mariachi on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in November 2011.