Heroes' Voices

We sang Where Have All the Flowers Gone at a Heroes’ Voices workshop at the Yountville Cal-Vet Home. When we got to the verse, “Where have all the soldiers gone”, one vet began to cry, and then she left the room. The next week, I asked if she was okay […]

When we think of veterans, most of us tend to think of men. The majority of veterans that Heroes’ Voices serves are indeed men, but there are many extraordinary women connected with Heroes’ Voices, both veterans and those who serve veterans. Heroes’ Voices has a marvelous Music Director, Dr. Lynne Morrow. Lynne […]

Heroes’ Voices has been doing weekly workshops at the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, (PICU) at the VA Hospital in San Francisco. Over the past couple of months several patients at the PICU have joined me in playing guitar in our singing workshops. Some of the vets were pretty lost and sort of helplessly […]

Heroes’ Voices has been doing programming all over the San Francisco Bay Area for two and a half years. Most of those programs have been at veterans’ facilities like the VA campuses in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Livermore and Yountville. Most of the vets we have been working with are […]

Heroes’ Voices began its programming at the VA facility in Menlo Park, California. We began with a series of singing and poetry workshops and a year later began our “Guitar Corps” programs. To date, we have served hundreds of veterans at that facility. While we have expanded our programming to […]

A few weeks ago we began doing music and poetry workshops at the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno. I connected with Ron Perez, who works with all the veteran inmates who are incarcerated there. Ron is a proud Army veteran who served in Vietnam, and is very active […]