Judging from its storefront in a gritty San Pablo strip mall off San Pablo Avenue, Los Cenzontles could easily be mistaken for just another cultural center in the East Bay. But to step through those ...

Los Cenzontles means “the mockingbirds” in the indigenous Nahuatl language. The band mixes traditional Mexican music with contemporary sounds including American rock and soul. They’ve collaborated ...

It’s a Mexican ranchera. No, it’s a Chicago blues number! Or is it a San Francisco psychedelia-era jam session? Actually, Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based musical outfit with a fluid personnel lineup, ...

$50 admission includes barbecue plate and soft drink. Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a non-profit organization, has trained thousands of neighborhood children in the cultural arts. Its ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. California-based Mexican roots band Los Cenzontles is set to release a recording ...

Raza De Oro is the newest album from Los Cenzontles ("The Mockingbirds"), a remarkable group from San Pablo, Calif. There's no big record label behind this music, made mostly by a bunch of kids who ...

It takes more than a COVID-19 outbreak to silence the Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, the San Pablo-based treasure that has been teaching Mexican music, dance and culture to area youth for some ...

Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy started as a youth music group back in 1989 has now grown into a prominent music educational program rich in Mexican culture and traditions. Lucina Rodriguez and ...

Deep rivers of pride and pain commingle in Eugene Rodriguez's new memoir, "Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging" (Heyday Books, 224 pages, $28). Writing with ...

Eugene Rodriguez begins his new memoir “Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging” with a gut punch of a story. The founder and guiding spirit of the San ...