Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cattaleya Quiroz carries a flag from San Ignacio de Loyola Catholic church, as she dances with her Matachines dance group in the ...

One by one, groups in colorful clothing swirled around the plaza at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine plaza as they moved to the steady rhythm of the drum beat. Dancers from Catholic churches across ...

EL PASO, Texas – March 12, 2026 – The Chihuahuas unveiled a new Copa de la Diversión™ identity Thursday evening, introducing the El Paso Matachines, a tribute to one of the most recognizable and ...

More than 700 colorful matachines took to the streets near Mission Concepción on Sunday to celebrate the Immaculate Conception, some garbed in bright dresses and tall, feathered plumes as music from ...

Wearing an emblem of the Virgin Mary on the front of their elaborate costumes and a guardian angel on the back, young dancers kick, march, stomp and swing their arms along with the beat of a ...

A health center in El Paso's Segundo Barrio held its annual Matachines celebration in hopes of keeping the centuries-long indigenous cultural tradition alive. On Thursday, the Centro De Salud Familiar ...

Los Matachines de Alcalde performed their annual dance in front of St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Thursday. The tradition of the matachin dances dates back hundreds of years and has been carried down ...

Once a week, a crowd gathers outside of Martinez Elementary School in North Las Vegas. In the dimming light, on a patch of asphalt, a couple dozen dancers line up in two columns, facing four drummers.

The dance marking the day of the Virgen de Guadalupe began with a clap of thunder from a drum in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio. Matachines dance dates back to just after the arrival of the Spanish ...