By Bianca Sanchez | Chicago Tribune – ChicagoTribune.com – Photo: Ivonne Ramírez/Hoy | CTMG.
Photo: The current members of Mariachi Sirenas, excluding newest member Lissette Telumbre. From left to right: Ibet Herrera, Laura Velázquez, Eréndira Izguerra, Evelyn Gómez, Monique Guerrero, and Jeanette E. Nevarez.
The women of Mariachi Sirenas, Chicago’s first all-female mariachi group, insist it was a complete coincidence their first practice fell on International Women’s Day. Eréndira Izguerra knows it was pure coincidence. She was one of the original members who called the practice. And as she said, “I had no idea (International Women’s Day) was a thing.”
