PHOENIX
June 4, 2010 Cold Shott and the Hurricane Horns
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Members: $14 / General Public: $20
Jazz up your Friday nights at the Desert Botanical Garden’s spring concert series. Enjoy evenings surrounded by desert beauty and the sounds of the Valley’s premier jazz musicians. The Patio Café will also be open with food for purchase from the daily café menu. Cash bar and wine flights are available with the opportunity to purchase wine by the bottle.
FLAGSTAFF
The Orpheum Presents
Wednesday, June 02 The Robert Cray Band with special guest.
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM General Admission Standing. Tickets: $29 Advance and $33 Day of Show. All Ages
PHOENIX -
David Munnelly Band / Feb 28, 2010 Also in Flagstaff Feb. 27 @ the Orpheum
The David Munnelly Band in Phoenix performing at The Irish Cultural Center located at 1106 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004 on Sunday, "Bringing new energy to Irish traditional music," the David Munnelly Band has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic with their exuberate musical style, based in part on the Golden Age of Irish music of the 1920’s & ’30’s. As the name suggests, the Band is led by multi-award winning button accordion virtuoso and composer, David Munnelly. David has also been featured on PBS, NPR, and BBC World Television.
ON THE WEB @ DavidMunnelly.com TICKETS @ www.FourPeaksIrishArts.org
TUCSON Tucson Symphony Orchestra "MasterWorks"
Last installment of the 2009-10 Tucson Symphony Orchestra MasterWorks Concert Series. The "Beethoven3" performance features "Octet for Winds," written during the composer's early period, "Grosse Fugue," a dramatic piece known for its difficulty of performance, and "Symphony No. 2," produced during the onset of Beethoven's deafness. Mar 5, 2010 @ St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
Times & Tickets @ SAACA.org Mar 6 & 7, 2010 @ Catalina Foothills High School
Times & Tickets @ TucsonSymphony.org
RECONNECTING WITH FANS, NEW LINEUP, NEW ALBUM AND TOUR PLUS THE RETURN OF GUITARIST DAVEY FRENCH
The word is out: EVERCLEAR is back, better than ever, and ready to re-connect with their audience. Frontman Art Alexakis has gone back to basics: recruiting a new band, releasing In A Different Light, a new album that reinterprets the Everclear songbook with some fresh surprises, and finally returning to the road, to the delight of fans nationwide.
Alexakis says, "It's so amazing to see the enthusiasm and intensity of our fans.....not to mention the diversity in age...they range from 15 to 50...it's great to see kids who were in middle school singing all the words to every song!"
In A Different Light is the band's first release on 429 Records, and finds the band revisiting their past work with refreshed, stripped-down arrangements of some of their best songs. Classics such as "Everything to Everyone," "Santa Monica," and "Father of Mine" stand comfortably alongside new tracks "At the End of The Day" and "Here Comes the Darkness." Like many rock greats before them, Everclear revisits their back pages with ease, intrigue, and a more mature perspective, making for an album that is a listening experience in itself.
MESA, Ariz. - George Winston, best known for his melodic rural folk piano style, has made no secret of the debt his playing owes to the musicians of New Orleans. Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions–A Hurricane Relief Benefit was inspired by Winston’s desire to support the Gulf Coast after the recent hurricane related devastation. This beautiful and vast region has a mystique all its own and he has been to it many times, from Corpus Christi, to Galveston, to Lake Charles, to New Orleans, to Gulfport/Biloxi/Bay St. Louis, to Mobile, to Pensacola, to Panama City, to the Tampa Bay, to Ft. Myers, to Naples.
Mesa Art Center - Ikeda Theatre
Fri, February 5th, 2010 8:00 PM (Doors open at: 7:00 PM)One East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201 (480-644-6500)All Ages. Tickets available for $20.00, $24.00, and $33.00 in advance, all seats $3.00 higher day of show! Tickets available from Mesa Art Center Box Office and order by phone: 480-644-6500
ORO VALLEY, Ariz. - Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance kicks off 2009-10 Cultural Concert Series in Oro Valley with Oct. 30, Nov. 20 concerts. The 2009-10 Concert Series begins this fall with two free performances on the green at the Steam Pump Village shopping center on North Oracle Road, north of First Avenue.
On Friday, Oct. 30, the
Sweet Willie D Blues Band will take the stage at 6:30 p.m. The four-man outfit has a sound rooted in the West Memphis blues.
When he was just 12 years old, front man Willie D played the drums in Memphis blues club owned by the great Albert King. He draws musical inspiration from other blues greats, including B.B. King, Lucky Peterson and Luther Allison.
In the decades since, Willie D learned the guitar and traveled throughout the South with various blues acts. In 2005, the Missouri native moved to Tucson and resumed his playing career.
Sedona, Ariz. - The ATOS Trio has rapidly developed a strong reputation as one of the finest young chamber ensembles performing today. Formed in 2003 by violinist Annette von Hehn, cellist Stefan Heinemeyer and pianist Thomas Hoppe, the ATOS Trio has since played recitals to high acclaim by both critics and audiences alike. The Ruhr Nachrichten wrote: "The sound of the ATOS Trio is addictive - World class level playing", and the ensemble has been praised for their warmth of sound, their commitment to a wide-ranging repertoire and their uncomplicated approach to fine interpretations and engaging performances.
The ATOS Trio 2007 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Award Winner
Sunday, October 11, 2:30pm St. John Vianney Church 180 Soldiers Pass Road, Sedona, AZ.
Keller Williams - October 16 - 8pm
The Rialto Theatre 318 E. Congress St. Tucson, AZ
Keller Williams from Fredericksburg, Virginia who began performing in the early 1990s. His music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and other assorted genres. He is often described as a 'one-man jam-band.' Though primarily a solo artist, Keller has toured with many groups including Yonder Mountain String Band, String Cheese Incident, Umphrey's McGee and Ratdog. A self-taught musician, he usually performs with an acoustic guitar connected to Gibson Echoplex Delay system, which allows him to record a riff once on his instrument and repeat it. This lets him play unaccompanied and include a wide variety of instruments in his shows. $22, $24 day of show purchase at the door. Visit
www.rialtotheatre.com for more information.
CHRIS CORNELL October 21- 8pm
The Fox Theatre 17 W Congress St. Tucson, AZ
Chris Cornell star rose originally with Soundgarden, but after the band broke up in 1997, he began his career as a successful solo artist lending his voice and talent to albums and movie soundtracks. In 2000, he formed Audioslave with the remaining members of Rage Against the Machine and released two platinum albums with the group. With the demise of Audioslave back into Rage Against the Machine, Cornell again embarked solo with his second album Carry On. His next album, Scream is highly anticipated. All ages prices from $35 - $65; $70 day of show purchase at the door. Visit
www.foxtucsontheatre.org for more information.
