Sharing music through generations

Ruben Moreno has been playing mariachi music since the spring of 1974. The genre fell into his lap after a knee injury playing football at the University of Arizona sent him to the hospital. While recovering the Tucson native ran into his former Little League coach whose son was looking for a trumpet player to…

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Music therapy for Arizona veterans

In 1966, Wes Ricks, then 19, was a river rat plying the waters of Vietnam while serving in the Navy. “We were getting shot at all the time,” said Ricks, now a professional musician from Phoenix.  Ricks knew what he wanted to do when he returned home. “When I was going into Indochina to serve over…

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