What do you get when the godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly joins forces with a honky-tonk hell-raiser and a boogie-woogie rockin’ piano banger?
One of the most unique concerts to hit Tucson so far this year.
The Reverend Horton Heat joins Austin’s legendary honky-tonk bad boy Dale Watson and Dallas-based pianist Jason D. Williams for Heat’s “The Stars Align Tour” at the Hotel Congress Plaza Stage on Friday, March 1.
We get the tour on Day 2, before Phoenix’s Rhythm Room, which hosts it for two days, Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3.
The tour is sticking to the Western U.S., starting Thursday, Feb. 29, in Albuquerque and running through April 2, when it closes in Denver.
Tickets for Friday’s show at Congress, 311 E. Congress St., are $30 in advance through hotelcongress.com or $35 day of show. These are standing-room-only tickets; no one really sits for an evening with the Reverend.
More to do
Also happening this weekend:
Ali Wong’s early show at Linda Ronstadt Music Hall on Saturday, March 2, sold out so they added a late show at 9:30 p.m.
Plan to laugh, a lot, at Linda Ronstadt Music Hall when the improv dudes from Who’s Live Anyway? (Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Ryan Stiles and Joel Murray) work their off-the-cuff comical magic on Friday, March 1, and standup/actress/screenwriter Ali Wong brings her “Ali Wong Live Tour” for what is sure to be two sold-out shows on Saturday, March 2.
Wong’s 7 p.m. show sold out Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave., so quickly they added a second show at 9:30 p.m.; there aren’t many tickets ($47-$97 through ticketmaster.com) left for that one, either.
Friday’s Who’s Live Anyway? starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $53-$63 through ticketmaster.com.
Singer-songwriter M. Ward released his latest album, “Supernatural Thing,” last June.
Singer-songwriter M. Ward is touring off his latest album, 2023’s “Supernatural Thing.” He plays the Rialto Theatre’s sister venue 191 Toole, 191 E. Toole Ave., at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 2, with Tucson’s own Howe Gelb and Irish songwriter/producer McKowski, one half of The Lost Brothers, opening. Tickets are $34-$38 through rialtotheatre.com.
Linda Ronstadt continues her Tucson Festival of Books panel by talking about her mariachi history. Her book "Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands" highlights her life and legacy. Video by Pascal Albright/Arizona Daily Star
