Eight cool things to do in Tucson this weekend (Feb. 24-26)
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Erotic art, big festivals, big events, fun for all.
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We can barely express how excited we are to see Stax Records icon Steve Cropper come to town for not one, but two shows: One at Club Congress downtown on Friday and the other at Hacienda Del Sol on Saturday night.
Cropper will be performing as part of a Jonny Rosch show, a superb talent in his own right, but spent years as the guitarist with the Stax Records house band, a studio group that included Booker T. Jones and Donald "Duck" Dunn. Those session musicians eventually evolved into Booker T. & the MGs.
As a Stax musician and producer, Cropper helped to develop the Southern soul sound, playing for artists from Otis Redding and Sam & Dave to Carla Thomas and Rufus Thomas.
He co-wrote a number of timeless hits, including "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," "Knock on Wood," and "In the Midnight Hour."
The Rosch band also will include:
Jimmy Fox – Drums (Founder and drummer of The James Gang, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Walsh, Stephen Stills, and many others)
Jeff Pevar – Guitar (Ray Charles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Jimmy Webb, etc.)
Sue Williams – Bass (Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Williams, Joe Walsh, Darlene Love, Ben E King, Robert Palmer, etc.)
Rosch and Friends will play at Congress at 7 p.m. on Friday. They perform at 8 p.m. at Hacienda.
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The Tucson Women's Comedy Festival is starting strong with three days of activities planned from Friday to Sunday.
Admission is $5 per show. The schedule goes as follows, according to the Facebook event page:
Thursday
7:30 p.m. FST! Female StoryTellers
9:00 p.m. Improv comedy featuring performers from the University of Arizona’s Comedy Corner, Unscrewed Theater’s From The Top, and Comedy Temple’s Betch.
Friday
6:00 p.m. Improv comedy from Tucson Improv Movement Teams (Killer Cathys, Cat Chat, ¿Cómo se dice?, and TIM all star jam)
7:30 p.m. All-Lady Standup featuring:
Roxy Merrari
Bridgitte Thum
Bethany Evans
Amber Frame
Sari Beliak
Kristin Levine
9:00 p.m. The Soapbox With Guest Monologists:
Lysette Davis Coordinator for Student Engagement at the UA Honor's College
Lizzie Mead Owner of Silver Sea Jewelry on Historic Fourth Avenue
Jeannette Maré Founder of Ben's Bells Project
Kelly Willis Schleicher Board Member of Pantsuit Nation, Tucson Chapter
Mari Herreras, Tucson Weekly Managing Editor
10:30 p.m. All Gender Jam - Anyone can come and get on the stage!
Saturday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Various Workshops (please check our website for full schedule tucsonimprov.com)
7:30 p.m. Throwndown Improv Comedy
9:00 p.m. Best Show, Period! with Molly McCloy, Mo Urban, and The Riveters
10:30 p.m. Female Finale featuring The Torch Theatre's Mail Order Bride Improv and Animal (Babbs Lopez & Maria Evelyn Lopez)
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Tis the season for craft beer milestones.
Just when you think you've attended them all, Catalina Brewing Company, at 6918 N. Camino Martin has announced on Facebook that it is preparing for its 1st anniversary bash this weekend.
The all-day festivities will include food from The Blacktop Grill and Luke's Pizza food trucks. Andrew Daniel Cates will bring the live musical entertainment at noon, with Austin Counts and Tom Walbank taking over at at 3 p.m. and Mark Williams serving as the grand finale.
After your done with the anniversary fun, stop back in on Sunday for the Ina Road Open House and Block Party, a celebration of businesses in the immediate area, with music and food, also being hosted at Catalina.
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A continuation of the Tucson Hip Hop Summit, the Tucson Hip Hop Festival is an event presented by the University of Arizona's College of Humanities' Africana Studies program and will be held from noon to midnight at 191 Toole, downtown. More than 60 local and touring artists will be involved, including Big Meridox (seen above).
Here is what Star music writer Cathy Burch had to say about it:
Want to see how vibrant and alive Tucson's hip-hop scene is?
Head downtown Saturday, Feb. 25, and you can experience a cast of 60 rappers including popular transplanted and local acts Murs, Lando Chill, Marley B, Cash Lansky and Jaca Zulu for the 2017 Tucson Hip Hop Festival.
The festival, which got its start in 2015 as the Tucson Hip Hop Summit, will be held at 191 E. Toole Ave. in what's being described as a block party spread across five venues near the corner of Toole and Sixth avenues: Studio One, Exploded View, Expanded Universe, The Docks and inside and outside stages at 191 Toole. There's also a so-called Rap Van.
The festival runs from noon to midnight and is all ages (13 and older); admission is $10.
In a written statement on the event's website, founder and organizer Pike Romero said the festival is meant to shine a spotlight on Tucson's hip-hop scene.
“The diversity of the Tucson music scene explodes through hip hop, and it needs to be known," he said. "From events to style to a community unlike anywhere I've seen or heard, the quality of hip-hop artists here outweighs the quantity. Showcasing all of the elements of hip hop is about embracing Tucson’s culture.”
The festival also will have guest speakers including Justin Hunte of Hip Hop DX, Mello Music Group’s Michael Toole and professors from the University of Arizona's Hip Hop minor program to explore everything from native communities in hip hop to tips for artists on event booking and promotion.
In addition to showcasing the local talent, the festival shines a light on hip-hop's cultural impact. Producers, DJs, B-boys, graffiti artists and thinkers are part of the fun, giving a fuller picture to how hip hop is represented in Tucson's diverse culture.
Meanwhile, one of the grandfathers of modern hip-hop will visit the University of Arizona as part of Black History Month on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to talk about the evolution and future of the genre as well as give a live demo. He will be in Crowder Hall, North Park Avenue and East Speedway in the Fred Fox School of Music complex, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free and tickets are available at the door.
Grandmaster Flash, a founding father of hip hop, will speak at the UA on Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Courtesy UA College of Humanities
Grandmaster Flash, regarded as a founding father of hip hop, and the Furious Five crew were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. His appearance is the finale event to the Africana Studies’ Program Black History Month and it will include a trio of local rappers who won a DJ competition earlier this month. Grandmaster Flash is expected to give the winners feedback and advice on their rapping technique and style.
Five years ago, the UA started the country's first hip-hop degree designation: the hip-hop concentration in the College of Humanities' minor in Africana Studies
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If you need a break from the hip-hop, make your way down to The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, Saturday at 8 p.m. for a showcase of local Women Who Rock Tucson, a follow-up to a similar event two years ago.
On the schedule: Louise Le Hir, Shooda Shook It, Adara Rae & the Homewreckers, PIPELiGHTS, and Leila Lopez, all for the affordable $5 ticket price.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
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After some success with the event last year, the Oracle Inn in Oracle is celebrating Buffalo Bill Cody Oracle Days once again this weekend.
The all-day event will feature authors giving lectures on Cody's life, a Buffalo Bill Cody look-a-like, a birthday cake in Cody's honor and a presentation on plans for a new museum in the area.
Find out all the details on the Cody Days website.
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Works of every media will be on display at the opening reception of the Tucson Erotica art event, this Saturday at the Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave.
The art will be a tad naughty, which means no kids allowed. Also on tap: fire dancing, live body painting and a number of guest DJs.
All that and some simply seductive art for free. The fun starts at 7 p.m.
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Copper Mine Brewing Company, Tucson's newest brewery at 3455 S. Palo Verde Road, will hold its grand opening from noon to 9 p.m. this Saturday.
The brewery will have six beers on tap, Haus of Brats and Gigi's Fusion food trucks providing the eats and will launch at the same time as 4th on 44th festivities around the corner. 4th on 44th is a block party featuring breweries, distilleries and other homegrown businesses along East 44th St., including Green Feet Brewing, 1055 Brewing and Three Wells Distilling.
Owned and operated by Jeff Kaber and Jeremy Pye, Copper Mine will run on a four-barrel system picked up from Colorado Brewing Systems in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Kaber said in an interview late last year that the initial goal will be to focus on producing beer for the taproom first.
“Down the road, we definitely see going into restaurants, bars, storefronts,” Kaber said, but distribution won’t occur until after the first six months of production, he added.
Find out more about Copper Mine at facebook.com/copperminebrewing
We can barely express how excited we are to see Stax Records icon Steve Cropper come to town for not one, but two shows: One at Club Congress downtown on Friday and the other at Hacienda Del Sol on Saturday night.
Cropper will be performing as part of a Jonny Rosch show, a superb talent in his own right, but spent years as the guitarist with the Stax Records house band, a studio group that included Booker T. Jones and Donald "Duck" Dunn. Those session musicians eventually evolved into Booker T. & the MGs.
As a Stax musician and producer, Cropper helped to develop the Southern soul sound, playing for artists from Otis Redding and Sam & Dave to Carla Thomas and Rufus Thomas.
He co-wrote a number of timeless hits, including "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," "Knock on Wood," and "In the Midnight Hour."
The Rosch band also will include:
Jimmy Fox – Drums (Founder and drummer of The James Gang, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Walsh, Stephen Stills, and many others)
Jeff Pevar – Guitar (Ray Charles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Jimmy Webb, etc.)
Sue Williams – Bass (Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Williams, Joe Walsh, Darlene Love, Ben E King, Robert Palmer, etc.)
Rosch and Friends will play at Congress at 7 p.m. on Friday. They perform at 8 p.m. at Hacienda.
The Tucson Women's Comedy Festival is starting strong with three days of activities planned from Friday to Sunday.
Admission is $5 per show. The schedule goes as follows, according to the Facebook event page:
Thursday
7:30 p.m. FST! Female StoryTellers
9:00 p.m. Improv comedy featuring performers from the University of Arizona’s Comedy Corner, Unscrewed Theater’s From The Top, and Comedy Temple’s Betch.
Friday
6:00 p.m. Improv comedy from Tucson Improv Movement Teams (Killer Cathys, Cat Chat, ¿Cómo se dice?, and TIM all star jam)
7:30 p.m. All-Lady Standup featuring:
Roxy Merrari
Bridgitte Thum
Bethany Evans
Amber Frame
Sari Beliak
Kristin Levine
9:00 p.m. The Soapbox With Guest Monologists:
Lysette Davis Coordinator for Student Engagement at the UA Honor's College
Lizzie Mead Owner of Silver Sea Jewelry on Historic Fourth Avenue
Jeannette Maré Founder of Ben's Bells Project
Kelly Willis Schleicher Board Member of Pantsuit Nation, Tucson Chapter
Mari Herreras, Tucson Weekly Managing Editor
10:30 p.m. All Gender Jam - Anyone can come and get on the stage!
Saturday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Various Workshops (please check our website for full schedule tucsonimprov.com)
7:30 p.m. Throwndown Improv Comedy
9:00 p.m. Best Show, Period! with Molly McCloy, Mo Urban, and The Riveters
10:30 p.m. Female Finale featuring The Torch Theatre's Mail Order Bride Improv and Animal (Babbs Lopez & Maria Evelyn Lopez)
Tis the season for craft beer milestones.
Just when you think you've attended them all, Catalina Brewing Company, at 6918 N. Camino Martin has announced on Facebook that it is preparing for its 1st anniversary bash this weekend.
The all-day festivities will include food from The Blacktop Grill and Luke's Pizza food trucks. Andrew Daniel Cates will bring the live musical entertainment at noon, with Austin Counts and Tom Walbank taking over at at 3 p.m. and Mark Williams serving as the grand finale.
After your done with the anniversary fun, stop back in on Sunday for the Ina Road Open House and Block Party, a celebration of businesses in the immediate area, with music and food, also being hosted at Catalina.
A continuation of the Tucson Hip Hop Summit, the Tucson Hip Hop Festival is an event presented by the University of Arizona's College of Humanities' Africana Studies program and will be held from noon to midnight at 191 Toole, downtown. More than 60 local and touring artists will be involved, including Big Meridox (seen above).
Here is what Star music writer Cathy Burch had to say about it:
Want to see how vibrant and alive Tucson's hip-hop scene is?
Head downtown Saturday, Feb. 25, and you can experience a cast of 60 rappers including popular transplanted and local acts Murs, Lando Chill, Marley B, Cash Lansky and Jaca Zulu for the 2017 Tucson Hip Hop Festival.
The festival, which got its start in 2015 as the Tucson Hip Hop Summit, will be held at 191 E. Toole Ave. in what's being described as a block party spread across five venues near the corner of Toole and Sixth avenues: Studio One, Exploded View, Expanded Universe, The Docks and inside and outside stages at 191 Toole. There's also a so-called Rap Van.
The festival runs from noon to midnight and is all ages (13 and older); admission is $10.
In a written statement on the event's website, founder and organizer Pike Romero said the festival is meant to shine a spotlight on Tucson's hip-hop scene.
“The diversity of the Tucson music scene explodes through hip hop, and it needs to be known," he said. "From events to style to a community unlike anywhere I've seen or heard, the quality of hip-hop artists here outweighs the quantity. Showcasing all of the elements of hip hop is about embracing Tucson’s culture.”
The festival also will have guest speakers including Justin Hunte of Hip Hop DX, Mello Music Group’s Michael Toole and professors from the University of Arizona's Hip Hop minor program to explore everything from native communities in hip hop to tips for artists on event booking and promotion.
In addition to showcasing the local talent, the festival shines a light on hip-hop's cultural impact. Producers, DJs, B-boys, graffiti artists and thinkers are part of the fun, giving a fuller picture to how hip hop is represented in Tucson's diverse culture.
Meanwhile, one of the grandfathers of modern hip-hop will visit the University of Arizona as part of Black History Month on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to talk about the evolution and future of the genre as well as give a live demo. He will be in Crowder Hall, North Park Avenue and East Speedway in the Fred Fox School of Music complex, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free and tickets are available at the door.
Grandmaster Flash, a founding father of hip hop, will speak at the UA on Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Courtesy UA College of Humanities
Grandmaster Flash, regarded as a founding father of hip hop, and the Furious Five crew were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. His appearance is the finale event to the Africana Studies’ Program Black History Month and it will include a trio of local rappers who won a DJ competition earlier this month. Grandmaster Flash is expected to give the winners feedback and advice on their rapping technique and style.
Five years ago, the UA started the country's first hip-hop degree designation: the hip-hop concentration in the College of Humanities' minor in Africana Studies
If you need a break from the hip-hop, make your way down to The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, Saturday at 8 p.m. for a showcase of local Women Who Rock Tucson, a follow-up to a similar event two years ago.
On the schedule: Louise Le Hir, Shooda Shook It, Adara Rae & the Homewreckers, PIPELiGHTS, and Leila Lopez, all for the affordable $5 ticket price.
More information can be found on the Facebook event page.
After some success with the event last year, the Oracle Inn in Oracle is celebrating Buffalo Bill Cody Oracle Days once again this weekend.
The all-day event will feature authors giving lectures on Cody's life, a Buffalo Bill Cody look-a-like, a birthday cake in Cody's honor and a presentation on plans for a new museum in the area.
Find out all the details on the Cody Days website.
Works of every media will be on display at the opening reception of the Tucson Erotica art event, this Saturday at the Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave.
The art will be a tad naughty, which means no kids allowed. Also on tap: fire dancing, live body painting and a number of guest DJs.
All that and some simply seductive art for free. The fun starts at 7 p.m.
Copper Mine Brewing Company, Tucson's newest brewery at 3455 S. Palo Verde Road, will hold its grand opening from noon to 9 p.m. this Saturday.
The brewery will have six beers on tap, Haus of Brats and Gigi's Fusion food trucks providing the eats and will launch at the same time as 4th on 44th festivities around the corner. 4th on 44th is a block party featuring breweries, distilleries and other homegrown businesses along East 44th St., including Green Feet Brewing, 1055 Brewing and Three Wells Distilling.
Owned and operated by Jeff Kaber and Jeremy Pye, Copper Mine will run on a four-barrel system picked up from Colorado Brewing Systems in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Kaber said in an interview late last year that the initial goal will be to focus on producing beer for the taproom first.
“Down the road, we definitely see going into restaurants, bars, storefronts,” Kaber said, but distribution won’t occur until after the first six months of production, he added.
Find out more about Copper Mine at facebook.com/copperminebrewing
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