{"id":111769,"date":"2026-01-30T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=111769"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:02:01","slug":"salem-reporter-mckay-mariachi-teacher-plans-statewide-festival-grows-new-music-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/salem-reporter-mckay-mariachi-teacher-plans-statewide-festival-grows-new-music-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem Reporter: McKay mariachi teacher plans statewide festival, grows new music program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26-660x495.jpg\" alt=\"Former All Classical Radio intern Cindy Flores (RACHEL ALEXANDER\/Salem Reporter)\" class=\"wp-image-111770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26-425x319.jpg 425w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Featured_SalemReporter26.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Rachel Alexander for the Salem Reporter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p><em>Salem Reporter by Rachel Alexander<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former All Classical Radio intern Cindy Flores was featured in the Salem Reporter for her work leading McKay High School&#8217;s innovative mariachi music program. Way to go, Cindy! &#x1f44f; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flores is the first music teacher in the Salem-Keizer School District dedicated full-time to mariachi and other Mexican music traditions. Her work is split across three schools in northeast Salem, with mornings at McKay and afternoons at Waldo and Stephens middle schools. She teaches about 40 middle school students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemreporter.com\/2026\/01\/21\/mckay-mariachi-teacher-plans-statewide-festival-grows-new-music-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">salemreporter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Salem Reporter by Rachel Alexander<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormer All Classical Radio intern Cindy Flores was featured in the Salem Reporter for her work leading McKay High School&#8217;s innovative mariachi music program. Way to go, Cindy! &#x1f44f;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":111770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:03:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111773,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111769\/revisions\/111773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}