The music is who we are. The first will be the Arhoolie Foundation's Frontera Collection, the largest repertoire of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular music anywhere. We need to realize that even with what little we can all give, there can be benefit from it, however small. But there is a great need for that.
Museum movements Other genres are objects of preservation attempts.
In Los Angeles, Jose Hernandez, founder of the Mariachi Heritage Society, has been working since 1997 with the city's cultural affairs department to establish a mariachi museum. Alice Regional Hospital, which recently moved to a new location, donated use of its conference center to the group May 15. Our next step is to start on the displays we want in the museum. Alice is following the lead of the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center in San Benito, which opened in 1991. The festival, sponsored by the Rodri Entertainment Group, is now in its 11th year, and officials are expecting more than 30,000 fans.