Next Stop - Mariachi Plaza

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Like day labourers, working construction, the mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA, hang around on Mariachi Plaza to pick up work. You’ll see them most days in their dark suits, embroidered jackets, silver buttons running up the sides of their pants. Writer, Evangeline Ordaz a night out in the Latino suburbs with the mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCWorld
0:09.0	Service.com slash podcasts. Now for BBC World Service, I'm Evangeline Orvass.
0:20.0	A few months back, I was at a family party in the Latino suburbs of Los Angeles.
0:28.0	Just a regular Saturday night for Marietchi musicians in a city famous for its fairy tales.
0:34.0	Most Mariachi are Mexican migrants.
0:39.0	Many work two jobs.
0:41.0	Will it always be like this? Next stop, Mariachi Plaza.
0:45.0	Next stop Mariachi Plaza.
0:47.0	Welcome to Boyle Heights.
0:50.0	Late afternoon, a bunch of Marioches are on the plaza.
0:55.0	We're about a mile and a half east of downtown.
0:58.0	20 years ago, you'd simply walk up to a donut stand
1:02.0	and a mariochee for hire would quote a price to play your party,
1:05.6	say a baptism, a quincenietta, or family wedding.
1:09.1	These days bookings may come over a cell phone through online ads.
1:14.0	There's a shift in the area's connection to its history.
1:18.0	Buildings change hands, businesses are made over,
1:22.0	even these streets are cut from the scrub and
1:24.6	farmland that gave way for LA.
1:27.0	Pardin Blanco.
1:29.0	I come from a place that you can only hear the wind, the birds, the dogs parking at the rabbits.
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