{"id":9915,"date":"2019-03-01T18:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2019-03-01T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:50:20","slug":"lfhs-competes-at-uil-mariachi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"LFHS Competes at UIL Mariachi Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9890\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190220-small-Mariachi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190220-small-Mariachi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190220-small-Mariachi-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/190220-small-Mariachi-405x284.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Los Fresnos High School Mariachi Nuevo Halc\u00f3n will compete in the\u00a02019 UIL State Mariachi Festival at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg Performing Arts Complex Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 9, LFHS placed fourth place in the Class 6A division at the Texas Association of Mariachi Educators (TAME) competition. LFHS won the 2018 state championship.<\/p>\n<p>The State Mariachi Festival is not for placements or ranking.\u00a0It is an opportunity for them to recognize outstanding individual and section performances from groups around the State.<\/p>\n<p>Performances will be open to the public. Admission for each session will be $15 for adults and $10 for students, and only cash will be accepted. Children 6th grade and under are admitted free. Tickets will be sold at the\u00a0door. No advance purchase is available.\u00a0Spectators must have a paid admission for each session.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy schools will be performing \u2013 30 in Session I, 21 in Session II and 19 in Session III.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Session I: Friday, Feb. 22. The first of 25 performances begins at 2 p.m., and the last one begins at 9:45 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Session II: Saturday, Feb. 24. The first of 29 performance begins at 8 a.m., and the last one begins at 3:45 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Session III: Saturday, Feb. 24. The first of 17 performances begins at 5:15 p.m., and the last one begins at 9:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Los Fresnos will perform at 8:15 p.m. Friday<\/p>\n<p>Performance time is limited to 10 minutes, not counting setting up and sound check.<\/p>\n<p>Each ensemble will also receive a 30-minute clinic with a nationally recognized mariachi educator\/performer at the conclusion of their performance.<\/p>\n<p>High schools qualifying for state are limited to enter one mariachi group \u2013 traditional or experimental \u2013 in the State Mariachi Festival, provided that the group earned a Division I rating at the current year\u2019s region medium ensemble contest.<\/p>\n<p>At the Regional TAME competition Mariachi Halconcitos (Beginners), Mariachi Halc\u00f3n Dorado (JV), and Mariachi Nuevo Halc\u00f3n (Varsity) received the highest ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD The Los Fresnos High School Mariachi Nuevo Halc\u00f3n will compete in the\u00a02019 UIL State Mariachi Festival at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg Performing Arts Complex Friday and Saturday. On Feb. 9, LFHS placed fourth place in the Class 6A division at the Texas Association of Mariachi Educators (TAME) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}