MEXICO CITY – Banda music is the soundtrack of modern Mexico, with its thumping polka beat and trumpets blasting everywhere from rural fairs to working-class Mexico City weddings. And it’s ...

Marvin Hernandez and Xavier Saavedra spent their teenage years listening to music from the northern region of Mexico. Now, at almost 50 years old, they share that same music with communities in New ...

MAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) - As Mexican banda music scales new heights globally, a festering dispute in the genre's traditional home turf pits frustrated hotel owners against the strolling ensembles ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Regional Mexican music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts ...

“It's insane that it took so long . . ." Helen Ochoa says When Helen Ochoa covered Beyonce’s “If I Were a Boy” in 2013, she gave it a regional Mexican makeover by singing it in Spanish with banda ...

As a 26-year-old communications student at Washington State University with a deep passion for music, entertainment and writing, I have always been fascinated by the world of regional Mexican music.

It’s surreal to think about arena shows being in full effect again, but Mexico’s legendary Banda MS plan to make the surreal ‘real’ with Monday’s announcement of a return engagement at Orlando’s Amway ...