News Summary

• Thousands of high school students who once might have joined the band, orchestra or choir now take classes.
• Mariachi has become so popular that demand for teachers has outstripped the supply.
• Students like violinist Axel Rodriguez Olivas are training to teach the traditional Mexican style of music to others, like other students at UNLV and others in the u.s. and around the world."I'm not only doing this for myself but for future generations.
• So I'm kind of trying to think about the future, kind of pave that path for them," Blanco says.