Author: Yolanda Garcia

Campus, Music

Mariachi Del Mar gets crowd involved

Yolanda Garcia

Audience sings along at performance Mariachi Del Mar embraced la Cultura Mexicana as they played songs from famous Mexican artists at Wolfe Recital Hall on Nov. 10. “We played many various tunes of traditional Mariachi music from Javier Solis all the way to Vicente Fernandez and Lucha Villa,” said Luz Valdez, an adjunct instructor for Mariachi Del Mar. The students, along with Valdez, performed nine songs in which students traded off to sing each song, including Valdez herself. The main vocalist of Mariachi Del Mar, Ana Colchado, took it upon herself to further her performance by dancing and stumbling across…

Community

Dia de Los Muetros held their 16th anniversary festival celebration

Yolanda Garcia

The city of Corpus Christi came together on Oct. 28 for the Día de los Muertos Street Festival for their 16th year of celebration. The streets of downtown Corpus Christi were crowded with people celebrating the Mexican tradition of honoring their deceased loved ones. The festival had live music from three stages, a Kids Corner that provided activities for children, various vendors selling their handmade arts and crafts, and food trucks. There were also ofrendas such as “Altars of Remembrance” that was held in the Ritz Theater for the duration of the festival. Among the local artisans, the Del Mar…

Campus, Music

Mariachi Del Mar set to perform

Yolanda Garcia

Free this Friday evening and enjoy Mariachi music? Mariachi Del Mar will perform at 5 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Wolfe Recital Hall in the Fine Arts Center Music Building on the Del Mar College Heritage Campus.  Mariachi Del Mar will be embracing the Cultura Mexicana through their concert directed by Luz Valdez, a Del Mar College adjunct professor. The ensemble will perform a range of styles of Mariachi music including works from famous Mexican singers such as Vicente Fernandez, Lola Beltran and Javier Solis. The concert is free to attend. For more information, please contact Valdez at lvaldez54@delmar.edu.

Campus

LPA hosts their 50th anniversary with haunted court room at DMC

Yolanda Garcia

Halloween is fast approaching, but for the Legal Professions Association Club, it’s not the only special day this month. According to LPA Vice President Rebecca Farias, the club is celebrating Texas Paralegal Day by hosting a haunted courtroom fundraiser Oct. 23rd. “We’re going to be doing a haunted courtroom and a cotton candy fundraiser in the Harvin Center,” Farias said. First known as Texas Legal Assistants Day in 1993, as declared by the 73rd Legislature, it was later declared as Paralegal Day in 2005 by the Texas House of Representatives. However, Paralegal Day was set in stone on Jan. 22,…

Campus

Vocal Vikings set to start competing

Yolanda Garcia

Digital media major Jasmine Vasquez was unexpectedly approached one day last year by her professor after delivering her speech on how to make a plush dinosaur. Now, she’s preparing to start her second semester with the Vocal Vikings, Del Mar’s forensics team. “I was very nervous because I had never done it before,” Vasquez said about stepping out of her comfort zone. For her first event with the forensics team Vasquez found herself participating in poetry and enacting a piece out of the novel “Impulse” by Ellen Hopkins. “Last semester I did poetry, which I really did enjoy — not…