Local historian MELISSA RUFFNER is widely known throughout Arizona and the West asPrescott’s “First Lady of Historical Record”. Melissa’s great-great-uncle, Morris Andrew Ruffner, settled in Prescott in 1867, and the family name has been one of the cornerstones of the Prescott Territory every since. Over the years, her local family tree has included a county sheriff, gold miners, Arizona’s first public school music teacher, Arizona’s first inductee into the Cowboy Hall of Fame, and many more colorful citizens and civic leaders.

A consummate showman, CLYDE SCORE, spent nine years touring with the rock ‘n roll show band The Gringos - where he met our bass player, Steve Jones - playing to crowds from The Fontainebleau in Miami to the Playboy Club in Los Angeles, and from the Crater Festival in Honolulu to Club 58 in Geneva, Switzerland. After a two-year turn at gold mining in the Bradshaw Mountains, Clyde returned to college for a B.A. in music. Currently he teaches aspiring musicians at Yavapai College. He also performs on the Grand Canyon Railway and for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, along with Larry Dean.

ASU music alumnus A.J. SINIAHO first taught and performed at several Arizona colleges, then segued into performing with a variety of artists throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico. This brass, keyboard, and arrangement pro has shared the stage with such entertainment legends as Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve Allen, blues master B.B. King, and Motown greats Wilson Picket,The Four Tops, and The Temptations. His musical credits include many recordings, and writing and arranging for commercials. Playing the Monterey Blues Festival is among A.J.’s all-time favorite gigs.