More than three years after her last public appearance in Tucson, Linda Ronstadt is coming home in April for an encore to her 2014 βSunday Evening Forumβ conversation.
Tucson native Ronstadt, the multiple Grammy-winning, iconic pop singer with more than 100 million records sold and countless hits on the country, pop, rock and Americana charts, returns to Fox Tucson Theatre for βA Conversation with Lindaβ on April 29. The event, presented by ΓΌber Arizona promoter Danny Zelisko, builds on Ronstadtβs 2014 βForumβ event. But in addition to a Q&A with the audience, βConversationβ includes a multimedia, big-screen journey into her musical and personal life .
Ronstadt, 71, is known for being open and in her last βForumβ appearance, she answered every question posed from the nearly 600 people in the Fox theater that Sunday afternoon. Back then she recounted childhood experiences growing up in a musical family in the Tucson home her parents built by hand, and the early days of her musical life, which has few female rivals.
That event came more than a year after she released her self-penned βSimple Dreams: A Musical Memoir,β which came out several months after she confirmed publicly in summer 2013 that she had Parkinsonβs Disease. By then Ronstadt, who moved to San Francisco in 2005, had stopped performing publicly; her last Tucson concert was in 2007 at the AVA at Casino del Sol.
Organizers said βConversationsβ will feature multimedia accoutrements including her music, rare videos, photos and behind-the-scenes events that informed and influenced her art. At a sold-out βConversationsβ event last year on New Yorkβs Long Island, the Huffington reviewer said the evening βtook me by surprise as I didnβt realize how funny Linda is. Linda was so captivating that I forgot to take notes.β
