Confined to bed in his final year, the conjunto great reflected on his family and why he played the way he did.

His “final curtain call.” That’s how the family of legendary conjunto artist Flaco Jimenez described his upcoming memorial ...

The event, available to the public, will take place Thursday, August 7 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Carver Community Center.

Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his reporting has appeared in Texas Highways, ...

Jimenez’s family announced the death of the 86-year-old multiple Grammy-winning accordionist late Thursday night on social ...

Like B. B. King and his guitar, Ray Charles and his piano and Louis Armstrong and his trumpet, Leonard “Flaco” Jimenez became ...

Country Music Icon Dies After Long Illness originally appeared on Parade. Flaco Jiménez, a renowned conjunto musician, has ...