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hearing it. It’s my thing,” she
said.
Many of the students are
also in band but, said Emmons,
the style is not only different,
but the technique.
“They play by ear,” he said.
“You have to be intentional
about training them. So, I
think, it’s different than how a
lot of people in, like, European
white culture, learn piano and
guitar. The kids doing it come
from families who emphasize
mariachi — they’re mariachi
families and they’re commit-
ted.
“We want to blow that up,”
he added. “We want to have all
kids participate.”
That’s the biggest focus —
getting the word out that all
students in the district are
welcome to participate in the
program.
“Without kids doing it, it’s
just another one of those good
ideas that adults have,” he said.
Giving Back
Juan Antonio Martinez is a mariachi pioneer in Hood River. He has
been teaching mariachi here since 1988 — mostly volunteer — as well
as plays in a band; he also works as an instructional assistant at Hood
River Middle School.
With money that he’s earned from music, he has opened a mariachi
school in rural Mexico, paying someone to teach. “I have a lot of kids
over there enjoying mariachi,” he said. “I focus on rural areas far from
cities.”
He is hoping to someday open a similar music school in Africa. “I
enjoy doing for the poorest countries,” Martinez said. “It makes me
happy to do it.”
THE MARIACHI BAND performs with long-time mariachi teacher Juan Antonio Martinez, at right, at HRVHS.
Photos courtesy on Brent Emmons, HRMS
HOOD RIVER MARIACHI plays under a tent at a community gathering.
Photo by Trisha Walker
YADIRA SOLIS chose the
Photos by Trisha Walker trumpet because she wanted
TEACHER JUAN ANTONIO MARTINEZ works with violin stu-
FROM LEFT, David Guzman sings and plays guitarron while Kimberly Jaimes plays vihuela.
to make “loud sounds.”
dents Jennifer Guzman and Angel Arredondo.
© 2020 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 36, No. 13
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