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 ...

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. San Antonio native and conjunto legend Flaco Jiménez ...

Flaco Jiménez, the legendary accordion player who was perhaps the foremost ambassador for regional Tejano music in the 20th century, died at 86 on July 31st. According to a statement, Jiménez died ...

ADRIAN — After paying the price of admission to get into the Lenawee County Fair, patrons can be treated to hours of free, local entertainment right on the fair’s historic bandshell stage. Through the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Flaco Jimenez, a six-time Grammy winner who took his conjunto accordion musicianship to the national and worldwide stages with countless superstar musicians and bands, has died, his ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO - Flaco Jiménez, the beloved San Antonio-born accordionist whose sound defined generations of Tex-Mex, Tejano, and conjunto music, has died. He was 86. He was surrounded by family in his ...

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 ...

With the soundtrack for your morning, which comes from the Rio Grande Valley. This is a geographically and culturally distinct part of Texas - in fact, it's much Mexican as Texan. And it does have its ...

SAN ANTONIO — Flaco Jimenez, a six-time Grammy winner who took his conjunto accordion musicianship to the national and worldwide stages with countless superstar musicians and bands, has died, his ...

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, ...

Conjunto (pronounced con-HOON-toh) is now offered as a fine-arts band credit in at least a dozen schools in the Valley and as far north as San Antonio. As the adage goes: If you want to preserve the ...