Film exploring Tucson's role in mariachi's rise hits the big screen

That's how much time Tucson filmmaker and longtime culture critic Daniel Buckley has spent on his mariachi documentary"The Mariachi Miracle.""The story is very compelling. This is a chapter of American history that has never been told," the 69-year-old former Tucson Citizen music critic said last week as he tied up loose ends on a version of the film that he will screen at Fox Tucson Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 14.

"I had no idea it was going to take this long," he said."It took 10 years to do this, and I’m still learning stuff every day." When he landed a job as the Citizen's music critic, the Tucson International Mariachi Conference was in its fourth year, and Tucson native Linda Ronstadt had just released her seminal Spanish-language mariachi album"Canciones de Mi Padre."

The emphasis on mariachi education inspired schools around the country including in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York City to launch their own programs. His first film project in 2009 was a collaboration with Fox Tucson Theatre that explored the history of Cine Plaza culture in Tucson in the early part of the 20th century. The downtown Cine Plaza Theater, a gathering spot for Hispanics from downtown barrios to see Spanish-language films and live Mexican entertainment, was torn down in the mid-1960s to make way for downtown urban development.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

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