Enjoy a performance by up-and-coming mariachi Lakeside musicians. The Escuela de Mariachi Pedro Rey (Pedro Rey Mariachi School) is teaching the mariachi style of music to a new generation of musicians. It’s helping to preserve Mexican traditions by offering a musical study program focused on mariachi for children, youths, and adults.

School director Dany Medeles, one of the key founders and driving forces behind this program along with dedicated music teachers, provides instruction and motivation to students. They ensure the correct execution of instruments such as guitar, violin, trumpet, vihuela (a five-string guitar-like instrument from 19th-century Mexico), guitarrón (a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar), as well as a children´s choir.

The musicians will play songs in the tradition of mariachi music, also called “son jaliscience” (Jalisco sound), native to Jalisco state and made famous in Guadalajara city. Donations collected during the presentation will go to support the school and its unique programs.