It’s a Mexican ranchera. No, it’s a Chicago blues number! Or is it a San Francisco psychedelia-era jam session? Actually, Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based musical outfit with a fluid personnel lineup, ...

Los Cenzontles means “the mockingbirds” in the indigenous Nahuatl language. The band mixes traditional Mexican music with contemporary sounds including American rock and soul. They’ve collaborated ...

$50 admission includes barbecue plate and soft drink. Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a non-profit organization, has trained thousands of neighborhood children in the cultural arts. Its ...

Every Monday we bring you a brand new song or music video to keep you going on that most difficult day of the week. We are usually playful, but we want to start off this week on a more serious note.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. California-based Mexican roots band Los Cenzontles is set to release a recording ...

Judging from its storefront in a gritty San Pablo strip mall off San Pablo Avenue, Los Cenzontles could easily be mistaken for just another cultural center in the East Bay. But to step through those ...

Deep rivers of pride and pain commingle in Eugene Rodriguez's new memoir, "Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging" (Heyday Books, 224 pages, $28). Writing with ...

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, 'A Man Alive' Last time we checked in with Thao Nguyen, she’d been evoking Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, strumming a banjo outside a women’s prison and singing her “We the ...

Raza De Oro is the newest album from Los Cenzontles ("The Mockingbirds"), a remarkable group from San Pablo, Calif. There's no big record label behind this music, made mostly by a bunch of kids who ...

Every 4th grader in California’s public schools learns about Juan Bautista de Anza’s epic 1775-76 trek across the northern frontier of the Spanish empire, a five-month journey that culminated with the ...