An All-Female Band is Making Its Way in the World of Mariachi Vivan Yee - The New York Times
go to original April 4, 2013

Mariachi Flor de Toloache, a New York band, may be the first all-female mariachi ensemble in the city.
 (Mariachi Flor de Toloache NYC)

One is German, another a New Yorker of Egyptian descent. Others are Cuban-American, Colombian, Dominican and Argentine.

These are the unlikely members of Mariachi Flor de Toloache, a New York mariachi band. Even more unlikely: all of the band’s nine members are women, the pioneers of what they believe is the city’s first all-female mariachi ensemble.

In 21st-century New York City, it may not be surprising to see women popping up in what are traditionally men’s roles. But despite a few notable female performers, mariachi has always been, and continues to be, male-dominated, though a few all-female mariachi groups have begun to gain prominence on the West Coast and in the southwestern United States.

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