Healing Harmony Concert Series

TMC Health continues its recognition of the profound impact arts can have on healing and well-being. Travel the world through flamenco, Irish, jazz and tango performances while supporting the TMC Healing Art Program, Jenny Coomler Scholarship Fund, Marks Employee Assistance Fund and the highest and best needs of TMC Health. 

This concert series is a celebration of creativity, community and the shared mission of improving lives by providing exceptional care with compassion. We invite you to join us this spring as we cultivate a community where music and medicine meet.

benefitting TMC Healing Art Program

Angelina Ramirez is a flamenco movement and teaching artist. As a teaching artist, she is interested in the intersections of arts and healing, focusing on work with elders of all abilities and integrated flamenco for neurodivergent participants.

She is joined on the stage by Misael Barraza-Diaz, an internationally renowned flamenco guitarist who has won ten international and more than 30 regional and national competitions. As such, he has become one of the top flamenco guitarists in the country, sought after for his skills as a soloist and as an accompanist. Collaborator and singer Melani “Mele” Martinez has studied flamenco for over 30 years and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction. Her first book, The Molino: A Memoir, was recently published by UA Press.

She regularly performs in local tablaos with her husband, Jason Martinez, a dancer and cajón player. Jason’s training began in 1998 with the Encinias family in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Angelina, Mele and Jason are original members of Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in New Mexico.  

benefitting Jenny Coomler Scholarship Fund

Katie and Mikey Dunlavey are an Irish-American husband and wife duet that moved to Tucson in 2021 and formed their own band, The Wild Swans, in 2023 after attending the Ceol na Coille School of Irish Music in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland.

The Wild Swans typically play as a duo but also enjoy inviting fellow musicians for major concerts and special performances. Performances consist of traditional Irish ballads, sea shanties, Sean Nos (Gaelic) singing and session tunes. Instruments include the guitar, harmonica, six-string banjo, penny whistle, bodhran and uilleann pipes. 

benefitting Marks Employee Assistance Fund

Established in 2008, the Tucson Jazz Institute (TJI) is a community music school serving middle and high school students from area schools across Southern Arizona.

Named Best Music School by Tucson Weekly magazine for 2023, ensembles at TJI have won first place awards in the most prestigious competitions in the United States, including the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival and the Essentially Ellington competition in New York City.

TJI is dedicated to continuing first-rate jazz education taught in positive and encouraging environments to help foster the next generation of talent performing one of America’s greatest art forms - jazz!  

benefitting Highest and Best Needs of TMC Health

"The Tango Guitar Project” is a new local ensemble consisting of highly accomplished classical guitarists: the project’s creator and director, Maxi Larrea (Argentina), with Andres Pantoja (Chile). Together, The Project performs new compositions and original arrangements, showcasing a repertoire of traditional and contemporary tango pieces by Latin American composers from countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Chile and Brazil. In addition to their duo repertoire, each of the members showcase their individual skills introducing audiences to the beauty of Argentine tango arrangements for solo guitar.