Starting with her orchestra class for fourth and fifth graders at Cooke, Dudley said she began teaching mariachi to those interested as an after-school activity. Soon students joined from other schools until it became a full-fledged extracurricular activity, with students playing regularly around the community.
After teaching music and leading the student orchestra in Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 for more than 20 years, and teaching the subject for more than three decades, Kathleen Dudley decided to go back to school in 2015 to learn mariachi music. Dudley said she wanted to be able to teach it to her students at Andrew Cooke Magnet Elementary School, with its 87% Latino enrollment. “Some of the kids grow up with parents trying so hard to become American,” Dudley said.
” Now a junior at the Waukegan High School’s Washington campus, Salvador Alvarez began learning Mariachi playing the guitar as a Cooke fourth grader. He has stayed with it ever since, and now plays the guitarron, a very large guitar-looking instrument. Standing a head taller than the other band members, Alvarez has a strong stage presence. He said he likes playing the guitarron because of the sounds it makes. He also hopes to have his own band one day.
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