{"id":3471,"date":"2013-03-11T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2013-03-11T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:16:30","slug":"veronica-robles-her-mariachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/veronica-robles-her-mariachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Robles &#038; her Mariachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Veronica-Robles-and-her-Mariachi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">To help celebrate International Women&#8217;s Month, the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/lowe\/historyculture\/lowell-folklife-series.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell Folklife Series<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0is pleased to present  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veronicarobles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Robles <\/a>with her Mariachi. Known affectionately by fans as\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">La Mera, Mera,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Robles is widely recognized as the most authentic representative of Mexican music and culture in New England.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This free concert takes place on March 23, 2013 at 7:30 pm in the Visitor Center Theater of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/lowe\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell National Historical Park<\/a>\u00a0 (<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">246 Market Street, Lowell, Massachusetts).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3475\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" title=\"Veronica Robles, mariachi singer\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Veronica-Robles-blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massfolkarts.org\/object_detail.asp?objectid=8270187\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Robles<\/a> has Mexican music in her blood. She first learned to sing<em> corridos<\/em> and <em>rancheros<\/em> from her grandmother as she prepared traditional dishes in the family kitchen. It was in Mexico City&#8217;s Plaza Garibaldi, the cradle of mariachi music, where Veronica was introduced to the mariachi group led by El Chiquis. \u00a0She began working with his group at age 15, learning hundreds of songs and musical styles from these elder musicians.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">In 1992, Robles left her home country for New York City to pursue her life as a professional mariachi musician.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Robles has made Massachusetts home since 2000, where she specializes in performing for young audiences through school assembles, residencies and dance workshops. Her television show, Orale con Ver\u00f3nica has been on the air since 2002.\u00a0She was named an\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massculturalcouncil.org\/gallery\/artistDetail.asp?App=20121331\" target=\"_blank\">Artist Fellowship Finalist<\/a>\u00a0by the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help celebrate International Women&#8217;s Month, the\u00a0Lowell Folklife Series\u00a0is pleased to present Veronica Robles with her Mariachi. Known affectionately by fans as\u00a0La Mera, Mera,\u00a0Robles is widely recognized as the most authentic representative of Mexican music and culture in New England.\u00a0 This free concert takes place on March 23, 2013 at 7:30 pm in the Visitor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/veronica-robles-her-mariachi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Veronica Robles &#038; her Mariachi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270,200,144,49],"tags":[423,475,598,615,616],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-grants","category-issues","category-maritime","category-verbal-arts","tag-lowell-folklife-series","tag-mariachi-music","tag-veronica-robles","tag-women","tag-womens-month"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Veronica Robles &amp; her Mariachi - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/veronica-robles-her-mariachi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Veronica Robles &amp; her Mariachi - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To help celebrate International Women&#8217;s Month, the\u00a0Lowell Folklife Series\u00a0is pleased to present Veronica Robles with her Mariachi. 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