Religiously, there’s nothing more Mexican than la posada, the December street procession that re-enacts the Virgin Mary’s search for a place to give birth to Jesus. Musically, there’s nothing more Mexican than mariachi — that roaring mix of trumpets, violins, guitars and flamboyant sombreros.
Put them together, as Homestead's burgeoning Mexican-American community did this month, and you've got the perfect Mexican Christmas.
But the mariachi part was an exuberant debut: It was the first public performance by the city's new mariachi academy.