2022 was a great year for The Mariachi Miracle. In August we presented a Sneak Peek rough cut of 45 minutes from the film The Mariachi Miracle at Tucson’s Fox Theatre. Over 800 showed up for the event, and the feedback was fantastic and very helpful. Later we did smaller private screenings for the Tucson […]

In addition to the many sponsors and folks who made the Mariachi Miracle Sneak Peek a success, I wanted to formally thank the performers who shared their talents with our audience at the Fox Theatre. Originally Mariachi Los Changuitos Feos was to have performed, but an outbreak of Covid sidelined the group on the day […]

There were many things that I was supposed to do before the screening of the Mariachi Miracle Sneak Peek but because I was so physically wiped out on the day of the screening, most of them just fell out of my head. In light of that, let me make up for lost time and do […]

Looking for tickets for the Sunday August 14, 2022 Sneak Peek screening of The Mariachi Miracle, plus live performances (Mariachi Los Changuitos Feos, Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School, Ballet Folklorico Tapatio) and a panel discussion? Click here to go to the Fox Tucson Theatre Box Office. Read all about it at Tucson.com. Special thanks […]

A sneak peek at the upcoming documentary film The Mariachi Miracle is coming to the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 West Congress, Tucson at noon on August 14, 2022. Here’s a taste of some of what you will see. For tickets to the event, priced from $5-15, follow this link. In addition to the screening the […]

Daniel Buckley is a Tucson based film producer/director and co-founder with Ralph Gonzalez and Julie Gallego of the Cine Plaza at the Fox documentary film series.  Buckley spent 30 plus years as a classical, folk and world music writer and multimedia producer, working for such publications as The Tucson Weekly, Stereophile Magazine, Native Peoples, and […]

As the sneak preview of The Mariachi Miracle approaches on August 14, 2022, I wanted to share a few clips that won’t make it into this film but which I find absolutely beautiful. This is a clip from 2013 when Alberto Ranjel was teaching mariachi at Tucson High School. Here’s some of his observations of […]

The time has come for Tucson to get a sneak peek of The Mariachi Miracle! On August 14 a screening of the work in progress will take place at the Fox Tucson Theatre, along with performances of some of Tucson’s best youth mariachi and folklórico dance talent and a panel discussion with some of the […]

It’s time for Tucson to sneak a peek at The Mariachi Miracle! The ten-year film and book project reaches a significant milestone August 14 at noon at Tucson’s Fox Theatre as a rough cut of the film is presented for input from the city. The Mariachi Miracle documents how Tucson has become a more cohesive […]

At the Tucson International Mariachi Conference’s Espectacular concert in May, 2022, Mayor Regina Romero dedicated the Tucson Convention Center’s music hall to singer Linda Ronstadt. A native of Tucson, Ronstadt is one of the foremost musical performers of the 20th century and beyond, known for her country rock recordings as well as recordings of American […]