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National Mexican Heritage Month
As you might now as of National Hispanic Heritage month started as of Thursday, September 15, 2016. Due to this there was an event in HCCC regarding so, in our North Hudson Campus. They invited a Mariachi group to play music in our Student Lounge, recalling she said they were a Mariachi group but she didn’t resonate from Mexico. She had told us about how Mariachi music was so famous and beloved it wasn’t only played in Mexico and always from their as well. She was playing a guitar from Mexico called a vihuela and the other musicians were playing a harp and guitarron. They would sing Hispanic songs some of which I knew and some of which I had never heard. I personally enjoyed the Mexican folk songs the best since I am from there. Although I

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