John Contreras is a mariachi musician and has served as the director of the award-winning Mariachi Aztlán de Pueblo High School for the past 20 years. Mariachi music has been an integral part of John’s life since age three, when his father taught him to play the guitar. He has spent his career passing along his knowledge and the heritage of mariachi music to generations of mariachi students. His career investment earned him the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award in Arts Education.

Producer: John DeSoto
Videographer: Robert Lindberg, Danny Sax
Editor: Diana Cadena

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