Photo by Raquel Hendrickson

The fourth annual Music-a-Thon at Maricopa Unified School District filled the Performing Arts Center with music for seven hours Saturday. Bands and choirs from Maricopa High School, Desert Wind Middle School and Maricopa Wells Middle School performed from 1 to 8 p.m., directed by Ivan Pour, Tonya Hobt and Roger Wagner, along with guest conductor Mayor Christian Price. The MHS Marching Band has been invited to perform in the American Veterans Center’s National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C., May 27, 2019. For the following year, the music department will attempt to raise $165,000, especially through the education tax credit program.

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Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.