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Events will be held daily through Sept. 27 and vary widely, from a marimba workshop with the band Son Rompe Pera to documentary screenings at the Consulate General of Mexico.

He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.

A marimba repairman came to rescue an aging instrument in Guatemala’s Los Angeles consulate.

Jacob was nearly vibrating with excitement as the strings rippled and marimba clattered.

It’s a countryish song with south-of-the border touches like marimba and flutes, a style jovially summed up as “Gulf and Western.”