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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — On a Saturday afternoon inside the walls of the historic Lerma's Nite Club, the notes of Conjunto music ring out, enduring through generations young and old. "It makes me feel really ...

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 ...

Had this been a non-pandemic year, Christopher Ramirez and Ashly Nicole Molina would have been in Austin on a recent Saturday afternoon. As two of the four finalists for the sixteen-and-under conjunto ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86. Jimenez’s death ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...