{"id":452015,"date":"2026-09-03T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:32:09","slug":"san-diego-county-students-invited-to-join-inaugural-mariachi-honor-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452015\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego County Students Invited to Join Inaugural Mariachi Honor Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"La Jolla Music Society Mariachi Honor Band in costume posed with instruments\" data-image- data-resource-description=\"\" data-resource-filename=\"marichihonorband.jpg\" data-resource-uuid=\"cecf2346-c456-4988-beb8-6daf12c14a99\" src=\"\" width=\"792\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As part of its Learning and Engagement programs, La Jolla Music Society (LJMS)\u00a0is inviting talented student musicians from across San Diego County to apply to its inaugural Mariachi Honor Band.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians selected for the Honor Band will learn from leading mariachi artists and educators, including guest artists from across San Diego and Los Angeles; perform alongside talented peers from across San Diego County; and take the stage to perform in a featured concert at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla with Latin GRAMMY-nominated artist Javier Rodriguez and special guests.<\/p>\n<p>High School Honor Band (grades 9-12) and University Honor Band (ages 17-25) are open to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tViolin\u00a0<br \/>\n\tTrumpet\u00a0<br \/>\n\tGuitarr\u00f3n\u00a0<br \/>\n\tVihuela\u00a0<br \/>\n\tGuitar\u00a0<br \/>\n\tHarp\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rehearsals will be on Thursdays, Oct.\u00a015, 22, and 29, from 5 to 6:45\u00a0p.m.\u00a0(high school) and 7 to 8:45\u00a0p.m. (university) at Logan Memorial Educational Campus. The performance will be on Thursday, Nov.\u00a05, at 7 p.m.\u00a0at The Conrad in La Jolla.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/email.theconrad.org\/c\/eJwUzM1q4zAQAOCnkY5GGv1YPugQFry7kELSQmhOQZkZxSG2ldpOXPr0JecPPopAukYrOeo6BOOtdY3sok8me1RWuxRsQJccgw_nnGujdPYsrxEUeNUo0M5Z3VTaoUKbkThjzRyEVUvHWMYpUVWmi-xjtyz3WZiNgFZASwXn6lLKpecKyyCgzWUa5pcIaFlAq9vN__t--4EWvvLxJ53-kttt-3-ft_Pj1HUjDfa47afTbv98O7xPa2kON_f9ZxXQPq-8vjo5xeExX7Fa0zKXUVg1ExauRl7kEpOygOyVO5ukMbucdU4uAzWkgtFKLpEC-KY2CR0BG28oBOUNGVaZqTYsnxF-AwAA__-6o2NW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">apply online<\/a>, and\u00a0applications\u00a0are due Sunday, Sept.\u00a020, by midnight.<\/p>\n<p>LJMS has a long and successful history with mariachi instruction through its Community Music Center based at\u00a0Logan Memorial Educational Campus.\u00a0As recently as July 2024, its youth mariachi ensemble Mariachi Juvenil won first place at the California State Fair Youth Mariachi Competition in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Mariachi Juvenil was established in 2001 and is led and instructed by Serafin Paredes, a music educator who has been the director of the LJMS Community Music Center for over 25 years. Participating students come from different schools including Logan Memorial, San Ysidro High School, Mission Bay High, and Our Lady\u2019s School, Southwestern College and SDSU. The Community Music Center (CMC) is designed to increase students\u2019 self-confidence and resilience, while providing a safe and equitable environment for studying and creating music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CMC provides free instruments and free group lessons three days a week in seven different instrument families for students in grades 4-12. Students also participate in two recitals each year, which builds self-confidence and pride. In addition to providing free instruments and books for classroom use and at-home practice, LJMS awards students who meet attendance and musical proficiency requirements for two years with a new instrument they can keep for life. With the support of a dedicated and qualified nine-member teaching staff, students\u2019 lives are changed forever, building critical learning and life skills through music-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of its Learning and Engagement programs, La Jolla Music Society (LJMS)\u00a0is inviting talented student musicians from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5767,74,84,22053,76,75,22054],"class_list":["post-452015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-post","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-county-office-of-education","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdcoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}