Looking to discover L.A.’s Mexican history ... a major role in the development of the “Pati-Charro” look. “My dad gave me [the] sombrero, and I just started using it with pride ...

When Gerardo "Jerry" Diaz takes a rodeo stage, he makes a grand entrance wearing a riding suit and a wide-brimmed sombrero ... features Mexican-style bull riding, trick roping, mariachi music ...

Mario Castillo, a former schoolteacher, has started the Lake View Mariachi Sombrero Project to help ... the door for students to learn about Mexican culture and, for some, their heritage.

MVHS’s student body is roughly 60% Hispanic; as such, Rivera stressed the importance of culturally relevant arts programs. MVHS teaches not just Mexican dance (folklorico) but mariachi music, a genre ...

Now, thanks to Ulloa, there’s another path into the heart of Mexican music ... the popular image of a mariachi ensemble as an ensemble dressed in black with big sombrero charros persists.

Wearing white trajes de charros — traditional suits worn in Mexican culture, often by mariachi group members — Mariachi Guzman played a set that ended with a song that was a fusion of mariachi ...