The Magic Of Music Is Healing.
Guest Contributor | Scott Gryder

The fiesta of the “American Mariachi” audience experience began as we approached the Goodman Theatre. There, entertaining beneath the glowing-red marquee, was Chicago’s all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Sirenas! Once inside, as the lights dimmed, the members of Mariachi Sirenas took their seats in the masked, full house. The bilingual curtain speech, first in Spanish, then in English, set the tone for the night: a multicultural fusion of reality, memory, and music.