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Best of 2023: A Music Class Is Helping Farmworkers Heal in Half Moon Bay

Ericka Cruz GuevarraBlanca TorresAlan MontecilloMaria Esquinca
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(From left) Belinda Arriaga, Yesenia Garcia, Hilario Lopez, and Pedro Romero play accordion during a lesson with Hernan Hernandez at Cabrillo Farms in Half Moon Bay, on Nov. 1, 2023. Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, known as ALAS, started a music therapy program that teaches farmworkers to play the accordion as a way to address the trauma from a shooting last January that left seven people in the Half Moon Bay farmworker community dead.

A full transcript will be available 1–2 workdays after the episode’s publication.

The Bay team is sharing each of their favorite episodes of 2023. This episode, picked by producer Maria Esquinca, was first published on Nov. 15. In it, KQED reporter and producer Blanca Torres talks about a nonprofit that organized accordion classes to help farm workers affected by the Half Moon Bay shooting heal from their trauma. 


 

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