Heather “Lil’ Mama” Hardy began studying the piano at age six and picked up the violin at nine. In 1983 she auditioned for the Manhattan School of Music as a double major on piano and violin and was accepted on both, but was required to choose only one. She began as a piano major under […]

The Bad News Blues Band has a reputation for "house burning live performances" all over the USA and Canada, Turkey, Holland, Ireland, the UK, Romania, and even Russia. Their music has been described as big band swing meets hard core blues and after years of performing together, this band knows how to get the house […]

Local Americana-folk group, Sweet Ghosts, share their songwriting talents live on the Hotel Congress Plaza with Rising Sun Daughter. SWEET GHOSTS is a collaboration between Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes. Their music runs the gamut from traditional Americana songwriting and acoustic folk to wild indie freak outs, always centered around a deeply melodic musicality and the […]

BLUES FRIDAY brings in The Amosphere! Band leader, Amo Chip Dabney is a two-time Grammy nominee, Native American Music Award winner (NAMA), Tucson Hall Of Famer, and multiple Tammie Award winner. Amo has developed a mastery of many styles in his thirty plus years of performing and recording. He plays basses, keyboards, guitar, European and Native […]

Cadillac Mountain, a Tucson based bluegrass band, is a dynamic group of talented musicians who have been playing together in southern Arizona since 2002, bringing their high-energy hard driving bluegrass sound and low-key style all over the state, from Flagstaff to Tombstone. Often performing as a duet with co-founders Joel Leland on guitar and vocals […]

ROY BOOK BINDER has the goods: the original, the bare-knuckle, the low-down . . . blues. Who can say they were friends with the Rev. Gary Davis, Pink Anderson and Robert Lockwood? And toured with Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Hot Tuna, JJ Cale & Bonnie Raitt ?  Roy can. He has the stories, the licks, […]

On their way to the Silver City Blues Festival,the Laurie Morvan Band brings their high energy, rockin’ blues to the Hotel Congress Plaza for the last Blues Friday of the season! more soon....

Local guitarist, Don Armstrong, is getting his band together for an evening of Americana-folk on the plaza! more to come...