Notebook – Bordernote

Chicano teenager in glasses points a guitar at the viewer

Old Soul

This playlist is home. This is my childhood, my family, my life. This playlist has different varieties of genres ranging from funk to oldies to Chicano rock. That was my upbringing, The upbringing of a Chicano.

Young trumpet player in mariachi suite in front of an airplane

Air & Space Acapella

Gabriel Harmon is a Tucson High School senior and a trumpet player with the school’s mariachi group, Rayos del Sol. In this video, he performs “La enorme distancia”

Marimba & mate

I want the listeners to get the same feeling I got about four years ago when I began experiencing these different sounds of instruments and music from these countries.

la güipa

You bring your crew and cooler, and they bring the party.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal

Sunday mass at St. Stephen’s includes singing by the congregation and performers invited from the Douglas and Agua Prieta communities.

Detail of fingers plucking at a guitarrón strings

That big guitar is a guitarrón

Tucson summers linger well into October, and on Hispanic Heritage Day, the University of Arizona’s grassy mall is baked in sunshine and smells like beer and gasoline.