Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S.
Hundreds of young singers from five different states have descended on San Antonio, Texas, for the Mariachi Extravaganza, the largest Mariachi music competition in the country.
Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation.