Bernadette Peters is kind of legendary on Broadway. And we’ll get a chance to hear her sing with her distinctive voice on Jan. 21 at Centennial Hall as part of the Tucson Desert Song Festival. Thank UA Presents for the gift.
More Music:
• The Tucson Jazz Festival launches Jan. 12 with sax player Kamasi Washington at the Rialto. Among the highlights of this year’s event: Tucson Symphony Orchestra and jazz great John Pizzarelli, Jan. 14-15 at Tucson Music Hall; crooner Storm Lodge Jan. 13 at the Fox Tucson Theatre; George Benson at the Fox on Jan. 19; and Grammy-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater joins the Tucson Jazz Institute’s Ellington Band on Jan. 20 at the Fox. The fest continues through Jan. 22. This is another of those events that’s impossible to cherry pick — we want to see it all.
• Any chance we get to hear mezzo soprano Korby Myrick sing, we take it. And if it’s Gershwin she’s crooning, we really can’t resist. Jan. 21, she joins Alexander Tentser for a performance of Gershwin tunes at Rincon Congregational Church.
• The Scottish band Daimh brings its fiddle, bagpipes and gorgeous voices to St. Francis in the Foothills Church on Feb. 4, courtesy of In Concert! Tucson.
• Blues and funk lovers will swoon Feb. 8 when Bettye Lavette — she’s called “The Godmother of Soul” — performs at the Fox Feb. 8. It’s a UA Presents event.
• Tucson Symphony’s SuperPops goes country Feb. 11-12 with music by the likes of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Dolly Parton and a host of others. It’s at the Tucson Music Hall.
• The Branford Marsalis Quartet and vocalist Kurt Elling will jazz it up at the Fox on Feb. 14. Now that’s how to spend Valentine’s Day. Also stopping in at the theater: Michael Feinstein (Feb. 23), whose musical interpretation of tunes from the Great American Songbook has won him wild praise, and the incomparable Rosanne Cash on March 5.
• Get ready for St. Paddy’s day with a concert by the Irish band Goitse, which is bringing along step dancers for the gig. In Concert! Tucson brings the group to the Berger Performing Arts Center March 8.
• Trumpet great Terell Stafford blows his horn better than most. Hear for yourself: He’s at Crowder Hall March 10, thanks to UA Presents.
