Rhythm and Roots Concert Series, Live Americana Music in Downtown TucsonRhythm and Roots Concert Series, Live Americana Music in Downtown Tucson
THE TUCSON OPRY: 2023 Holiday Edition
Saturday, Dec. 9th
Doors at 6, show at 6:30
Tickets $20 advance, $25 day of show
TICKETS HERE
Join us on the Plaza for a holiday edition of the Tucson Opry! This Opry-style variety show hosted by Chris Brashear features the zany Robbie Fulks, Mamma Coal & Alvin Blaine, Mariachi Las Aguilitas, poet Logan Phillips, and more!
Robbie Fulks wildly adventurous spirit has defined a critically acclaimed 30-year career that has included 15 solo albums and two GRAMMY® nominations. He came to national attention as a defining artist of the alt-country scene in the 1990s, with releases on the Chicago-based indie Bloodshot Records, North Carolina’s Yep Roc, and Los Angeles’s Geffen Records. While Fulks’s aversion to genre constraints and conventions has sometimes made him hard to pigeonhole, American country music, in the widest sense, is his home base — whether the country of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Merle Haggard, Bobby Charles, or Mississippi John Hurt. For the last ten years, he has focused on his writing and performing with homespun tales and acoustic instruments.
Bluegrass Vacation, his latest detour just released, Bluegrass Vacation, features highly regarded musicians such as Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Sierra Hull, John Cowan, Chris Eldridge, Tim O’Brien, Stuart Duncan, Dennis Crouch, Ronnie McCoury, David Grier, Todd Phillips, Missy Raines and, not least of all, Compass founder Alison Brown.
Fulks was born in York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. He learned guitar from his dad, banjo from the Earl Scruggs instruction book, and songwriting by a trial-and-error process that is still going on. He attended Columbia College in New York City in 1980 and dropped out in 1982 to focus on the Greenwich Village songwriter scene. He moved to Chicago in the mid 1980s, joining Greg Cahill’s bluegrass outfit Special Consensus and teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music.