Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conjunto musicians shown outside Lerma's Nite Club in San Antonio in the early 1980s. Such moments and music are highlighted in ...

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, ...

Imagine the sights and sounds around the accordion of conjunto pioneer Bruno Villareal, or the 12-string bajo sexto of fellow squeeze-box legend Flaco Jiménez. The sweeping two-step polkas at the old ...

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 ...

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 ...