New CD finds Conjunto Aztlan getting sensitive without sacrificing its activist roots. Conjunto Aztlan melds the personal and political with new batch of love songs Somewhat unexpectedly, Conjunto ...

With his Zapata moustache and West Side swagger, Juan Tejeda will never be mistaken for a shrinking violet. An ardent, outspoken activist for his people, teacher of Mexican American studies at Palo ...

When Galena Park resident Carlos Maldonado Jr. strums his 12-string guitar and croons into the microphone, it's most often romantic songs or lyrics about heartbreak. But this is not country music ...

MECA presents Floricanto Houston with Conjunto Aztlan, an evening of song, poetry, inspiration, and movement. It was 50 years ago this month that the United Farm Workers union, under the leadership of ...

Saturday's first-time pairing of Conjunto Aztlan and Los Nahuatlatos at Azeneth Dominguez's Saluté is a Chicano music version of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Expect a progressive, political generation ...

When Galena Park resident Carlos Maldonado Jr. strums his 12-string guitar and croons into the microphone, it's most often romantic songs or lyrics about heartbreak. It's conjunto, a form of Mexican ...

Music is an integral part of the makeup of San Antonio, but if you peel off all the city’s sound layers (rock, hip-hop, metal, country, Tejano, Americana, et al), at the center of it you’ll find ...

It’s not every day that you get to see a woman playing the button accordion in the Conjunto or Tejano style of music. In Texas, there was Eva Ybarra starting in the ’70s, and from California, Chavela ...

After 29 years, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio is synonymous with historic performances at Rosedale Park. Legends including Flaco Jimenez, his brother ...

Traditional and contemporary conjunto music. Compact disc. Historical and descriptive notes in English by David Champion, Ramón de León, Pete Reiniger and Cynthia Vidaurri; song lyrics in English; and ...