At 76, Phoenix singer-songwriter Sarah James is releasing original music, running a globally followed vintage guitar series, and donating Waylon Jennings’ Stratocaster to the MIM — proof that some stories take a lifetime to get started.
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Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley has written a memoir organized entirely by its soundtrack — from doo-wop in postwar Philadelphia to Hendrix in Vietnam — tracing a life shaped by music and the extraordinary history it witnessed firsthand.
Adopted from Bulgaria and raised in Anthem, baritone Jacob Soulliere carries the Phoenix Boys Choir, the Boulder Creek choir risers and the mentors who shaped him to Carnegie Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory — and wherever the music takes him next.
Beyond its celebrated concert season, Arizona Musicfest quietly serves more than 5,000 people a year through Music Alive! — a year-round program of free seminars, instrument classes and community connection that has become the organization’s most essential work.
At Jubilate Conservatory of Music in Carefree’s Spanish Village, founder Laya Field is building something rare: a multigenerational musical community where toddlers discover rhythm, teenagers compose original works and everyone finds a seat at the table.
At ASU FIDM’s gleaming Fusion on First tower, fish skin becomes luxury leather and 3D-printed medical braces become runway-worthy — proof that Phoenix is rewriting the rules of sustainable fashion education.
Former Saks Fifth Avenue stylist Amanda Jacobs transforms family heirlooms and thrift store finds into bespoke sustainable fashion from her Anthem studio, proving that the most meaningful wardrobe pieces are the ones that carry stories forward.
Phoenix fashion educator Tricee Thomas is transforming downtown’s creative landscape — one runway, one tech pack and 920 students at a time.
For three decades, architect C.P. Drewett has quietly shifted the North Valley’s architectural language from Mediterranean enclosure to transparent desert modernism — one precise, philosophical detail at a time.
Ten architectural landmarks across the Valley demonstrate how midcentury and contemporary designers translated brutal climate into sculptural form.