The 2025 Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop will be held June 9-13, 2025. The sessions will run daily from 7:30AM - 4:30PM for all pre-registered participants, with a one-hour break for lunch mid-day.
The 2025 Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop will be held June 9-13, 2025. The sessions will run daily from 7:30AM - 4:30PM for all pre-registered participants, with a one-hour break for lunch mid-day.
The 2025 Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop will take place at South Elgin High School (760 E. Main St., South Elgin, IL 60177). Please park and enter at the Auditorium Entrance each day.
All attendees should bring a trumpet or violin with them to the workshop. If you have a guitar, vihuela, or guitarron and can bring that as well, that would be very helpful! There will be instruments available for attendees to use during the workshop sessions.
The Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop is made available by School District U-46, and instruction will be provided by Mariachi Education Consultants based in Clark County, Nevada.
*NOTE: Attendees will receive a hard copy of the course materials on the first day of the workshop.
Click here to meet the fabulous instructional team for the 2025 Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop!
Graduate credit is available for an additional fee through VanderCook College of Music.
They will be providing a coffee break and lunch (taco truck!) for all participants on Thursday, June 12, and will have their luthier onsite that day to support light instrument repairs and maintenance needs, particularly for vihuelas and guitarrónes.
Questions? Please contact Jaimie Giraldo, U-46 Fine Arts Coordinator, or Lupe Gavina, U-46 Fine Arts Department Secretary.
The 2026 Elgin Mariachi Education Workshop will be June 8-12, 2026.
Details and registration information will follow.