Arthur Bloom

By injecting music into this space, we can inject life, there's nothing injured about the way they do it. It's just good music.

I've seen guys come in here, and they're going through such a tough time with their injuries that they are very withdrawn, the music becomes their new way of communicating. It can be just as powerful as the spoken word. ... By injecting music into this space, we can inject life.

Some of what we do, you could call adaptive music making, the folks who are missing limbs or have damaged hands and arms sometimes require specialized instruments, which we provide.

And that was my ability to play the guitar. Arthur and his program changed my outlook on what is possible. music has no stigma.

Music has no stigma.

Some of what we do you could call adaptive music making, the folks who are missing limbs or have damaged hands and arms sometimes require specialized instruments, which we provide.

There's so much downtime at Walter Reed, and that's what we fill up with music, what we didn't expect is that they'd get really, really good. So we formed a band.

We match the injured troops with professional musicians, they help wounded warriors play music and recover their lives.