Judging from its storefront in a gritty San Pablo strip mall off San Pablo Avenue, Los Cenzontles could easily be mistaken for just another cultural center in the East Bay. But to step through those ...

Los Cenzontles means “the mockingbirds” in the indigenous Nahuatl language. The band mixes traditional Mexican music with contemporary sounds including American rock and soul. They’ve collaborated ...

Los Cenzontles, an East Bay–based roots ensemble and cultural arts academy, has spent decades nurturing youth through tradition. At a time when immigrant communities are often reduced to talking ...

$50 admission includes barbecue plate and soft drink. Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a non-profit organization, has trained thousands of neighborhood children in the cultural arts. Its ...

It’s a Mexican ranchera. No, it’s a Chicago blues number! Or is it a San Francisco psychedelia-era jam session? Actually, Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based musical outfit with a fluid personnel lineup, ...

Raza De Oro is the newest album from Los Cenzontles ("The Mockingbirds"), a remarkable group from San Pablo, Calif. There's no big record label behind this music, made mostly by a bunch of kids who ...

It takes more than a COVID-19 outbreak to silence the Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, the San Pablo-based treasure that has been teaching Mexican music, dance and culture to area youth for some ...

SAN PABLO, Calif. - In a political climate where rhetoric can harden borders long before any policy does, a chorus of young voices is rising—not in protest alone, but in poetry, rhythm, and ancestral ...