Don’t be surprised on Monday, Oct. 30, if a concert breaks out on your otherwise uneventful weekly Meet Me At Maynards walk downtown.
For the third year, the University of Arizona School of Music is inserting itself into the fun and rerouting walkers along a 2-mile trail that passes by some of downtown’s wonderful walls of street art.
Fourteen UA student ensembles including HarpFusion, the Outer Horizons Jazz Band, Q’iru Duet and Friends and Screaming Violas will perform in small ensembles set up at several locations including at The Monica at 40 E. Congress St., the AC Hotel at 151 E. Broadway Blvd., and Jácome Plaza at 101 N. Stone Ave.
Walkers will meet at Maynards, 400 N. Toole Ave., at 5 p.m. and follow a route that meanders from the corner of North Fifth Avenue and Toole to the AC Hotel on East Broadway Boulevard to the courtyard at East Congress Street and North Stone Avenue.
The route, passing by some of the best examples of Tucson’s vibrant mural work, also goes along the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson Museum, 196 N. Court Ave., and Old Town Artisans at 201 N. Court Ave.
“Musical Murals” interactive walking tour of downtown, sponsored by Instrumental Music Center in collaboration with Meet Me At Maynards, also will feature the UA student chamber ensembles 6ophones, AM Wind Quintet, Drum-Cats, Fred Fox Graduate Brass Quintet and Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet, Grapevine Quintet, Speak-Easy Ragtime Xylophone Band, the UA Folk-Rock Ensemble, UA Graduate String Trio and UA Opera Theater.
Walkers can register for free beginning at 5 p.m. at Maynards. The walk runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit beyond-tucson.org.
Joe Pagac works on a mural on the outside of the YMCA of Tucson building on August 28, 2023. Pagac says the 2,600 square-foot mural will be finished by this weekend. The mural highlights different aspects of what the YMCA offers such as basketball, swimming and horseback riding. The mural is funded by the Connie Hillman Family Foundation. Video by: Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star
