As performers and recording artists, the ensemble has developed and popularized many original arrangements of Mexican traditional tunes touring mostly in the Midwest, East Coast and Southern U.S.
Some of its original work has experimented cross-culturally with symphonic, Irish, folk, country, jazz, and rock music, though never abandoning its roots in Mexican son.
[10][11] In 2016, Sones de México developed and performed their soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished silent film ¡Que Viva Mexico!.
[12] On September 8, 2015 at the Library of Congress, the just-inducted United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Sones de Mexico, and their songwriting class, cowrote the ballad "Corrido de Sandra Bland", in Spanish, to honor the Chicago woman who had died in police custody in Texas.
[17] By February 2017, the actively performing ensemble consisted of Díes, Iñiguez, Zacbé Pichardo, Gonzalo Cordova (founding member),[18] Eric Hines (drums and percussion), and Rudy Piñon.