SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...

Linda Escobar, this week’s guest on Viva Tejano, is an absolute pillar in the world of tejano music. She is one of the defining female voices in conjunto and helped spread the music globally, ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hohner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the stages of the world, becoming the music’s greatest ambassador. Jimenez died ...

For newcomers looking to differentiate Mexico’s Norteño music from Texas’ conjunto, look no further than the fits among Saturday and Sunday fans at Austin’s Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival. Attendees ...

SAN ANTONIO – The 43rd annual Tejano Conjunto Festival will return to the Alamo City this week, offering an exciting lineup of conjunto bands and performers. The music festival will take place from ...

Everything is going fine until Lupe Saenz sees the CDs. I’m paying my check at a run-down diner in downtown Mercedes, a town of about 15,000 a little east of McAllen. Standing with me is Saenz, head ...

SAN ANTONIO - With all due respect to Selena and Tejano music, the key ingredient of the infectious Texas music genre is conjunto. “You take conjunto out of Tejano, you get nothing,” Tejano legend ...

Famed Tejano singer-songwriter and master accordionist Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez has died. He was 86. Jiménez’s family shared the news of the musician’s death on his official Facebook page Thursday ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on Thursday night, his family announced. Flaco was born in San Antonio in ...

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 ...

Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is now offered as a fine-arts band credit in at least a dozen schools in the Valley and as far north as San Antonio. As the adage goes: If you want to preserve the ...

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.) With the soundtrack for your morning, ...