With support from the California Arts Council, and under the lead of an artist with 25 years of experience teaching Mexican dance and music, La Peña will offer son jarocho lessons to 150 students, including concepts of beat/rhythm, layering polyrhythms, percussive and melodic rhythms, son jarocho musical structure, dynamics and melody and cultural sensitivity participating in a community art form. The 9 months in-­class project will work with a school that is strongly consolidating this program