[WGH]

Every year on the first weekend in May, Tucson has a free folk festival.
Our local community radio station, KXCI, is streaming the entire Plaza Stage performances (almost) live with a hour and a half tape delay on both Saturday and Sunday.

Local and national acts are scheduled, so if you don't have enough great live folk music in your life give KXCI a listen this weekend.
http://kxci.org/

More info and a schedule can be found at the Tucson Folk Festival website:
http://tucsonfolkfest.org/

The headliners this year are:
Billy Jonas
Ruthie Foster
Marley's Ghost

Enjoy,

Wayne

[WGH]

Sunday bump for folk music lovers.

Walked down to the festival last night and caught a bunch of acts. It was a beautiful desert evening, brilliant stars, with temps in the mid 70's.
 
Marley's Ghost is a class act, they have been playing together for 20 years. A little bagpipe, folk, bluegrass, country western, a little Bob Marley with pedal steel and fiddle done bluegrass style.  What you won't see on the live stream is the drummer playing the piano and drumming at the same time.
Catch them live again later tonight.

[nodiak]

Sounds really great Wayne. Tucson a wonderful place, spent some months there, wish I could go to that festival sounds like great music and atmosphere.
Glad you could do it.
Don

[WGH]

Sounds really great Wayne. Tucson a wonderful place, spent some months there, wish I could go to that festival sounds like great music and atmosphere.
Glad you could do it.
Don

If you ride you could schedule a road trip for this time next year. If you get tired of folk music you can also do the HOG Fest.

For the last 2 years the Arizona State HOG Rally called Tucson Thunder has been held on the same weekend as the folk festival.



Hundreds of hogs of every shape and age show up. Congress St. downtown is closed off to cars and Harley's are parked all up and down the street, plenty of cool machines to check out.

In the evening a couple of huge stages are set up outdoors playing really loud bad-ass rock-n-roll. The bikers check out the folk festival during day and the folkies check out the bikes at night.

[nodiak]

Never had a big bike, just Honda 450CL in 70's. Lived in Colorado, and rode to Grand Canyon once. The southwest is incredible on a bike. I would enjoy the Hog show tho and probably the music. We had some Angels show up at our parties in the mts at times...properly lubed we all got along just fine  .