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SUMMARY:The Iguanas
DESCRIPTION:Tex-Mex roots rock bliss via New Orleans \n\n\n\n\n\nSisters Bar & Restaurant opens at 5pm. Information and reservations here.  A seated show\, mostly.  \n\n\n\nWhat if Americana actually encompassed ALL of the Americas? You’d have the Tejano and Conjunto sounds of the Texas/Mexico border region\, as best exemplified by the accordion and bajo sexto\, the American South’s Blues\, Jazz and New Orleans R&B\, and the lilting grace and fiery passion of the music of the Caribbean\, Mexico and Colombia. You’d also have New Orleans’ premier distillers of this musical mélange\, The Iguanas. \n\n\n\nTaking their cues from all of the above influences and then some\, the band’s music redefines the notion of Americana\, crossing cultures\, styles\, eras… and even languages. It’s as if Rue Bourbon\, Muscle Shoals and Plaza México were all within earshot of each other and The Iguanas were the musical conduit between them.  \n\n\n\nThrough eight studio albums\, countless tours and Jazz Fest appearances\, and a flood in 2005 that did its best to take their  city with it\, it’s a testament to the band’s endurance that the same four guys that started playing in the early 1990s are still together. Joe Cabral is philosophical about the band’s persistence in the face of challenges that would have felled – indeed have felled – lesser bands. “First of all\, this is all we know how to do; we’re musicians. But more than that\,” he continues\, “we respect the power of the band as an entity\, and each individual in the band steps up to play his part. When it’s good\, that’s really what it’s all about.” \n\n\n\nRod Hodges agrees. “I don’t want to get all heady and mystical about this\, but it’s not really an outward reward we’re looking for. We all enjoy playing music\, we all get along\, and finding a group of people who can say that after all this time is a rare thing.”.
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/the-iguanas/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Last Waltz Live: 50th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:50 years later\, the music still brings us together. \n\n\n\n Join us for a special celebration of The Last Waltz\, the legendary farewell concert by The Band\, featuring an all-star lineup of Tucson musicians and poets paying tribute to one of the most iconic live performances ever captured. Sunday\, August 23fd at La Rosa. FEATURING: Brian Lopéz\, Grant Bloom\, Andrea Connolly\, Connie Brannock\, Kevin Pakulis\,  Carlos Arzate\, John Coinman\, Danny Krieger\, Petie Ronstadt\, Bruce Halper\, Rob Boone\, Gary Mackendar\, Gabrielle Pietrangelo \n\n\n\nPoets: Jefferson Carter\, Terry Pollock  \n\n\n\nAnd many more  \n\n\n\nSisters Bar and Restaurant opens at 5pm. Info and reservations HERE
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/the-last-waltz-live-50th-anniversary/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sparrows  & The Last Train - Album Release
DESCRIPTION:Sparrows & The Last Train | Album Release Celebration \n\n\n\nSparrows & The Last Train \n\n\n\nUnder Sonoran Skies Album Release Celebration \n\n\n\n(& Petie Ronstadt’s Birthday Party!) \n\n\n\nSisters Bar & Restaurant opens at 5pm. Information and reservations here. \n\n\n\n16+ // under 16 must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian \n\n\n\n* This is a seated show. * \n\n\n\nSparrows & The Last Train celebrate the release of their new album\, Under Sonoran Skies\, with a special full-length concert at La Rosa. Nearly 18 months in the making\, the 10-song album is an expression of what the Tucson ensemble calls “Sonoran Soul from the Postmodern American West” … music grounded in the desert and in the lives and shared memory of the borderlands\, while looking toward what lies ahead. \n\n\n\nLed by Peter Dalton Ronstadt and Liz Cerepanya\, the six-piece band brings together their own songs with music by Alan Garr\, Victoria Armstrong and John Prine. Conceived in the spirit of a classic LP\, the album was shaped into two approximately 22-minute sides\, selected from 15 songs recorded during the sessions. The September 1 concert will include the complete album as well as music from those wider sessions. \n\n\n\nThe evening celebrates the release of Under Sonoran Skies on CD and digital platforms\, with vinyl to follow. September 1 also happens to be Peter’s 41st birthday\, so it will be an album release show and birthday celebration in one.
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/sparrows-the-last-train-album-release/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mark Hummel’s All Stars w/ Anson Funderburgh & Junior Watson
DESCRIPTION:With support from Porch Rockers. Sisters Bar & Restaurant opens at 5pm. Information and reservations here.A seated show.  \n\n\n\nGrammy Nominee\, Blues Award Winner\, Author\, Harp Man Mark Hummel had a banner year in 2014. Grammy Nominated for his Remembering Little Walter CD he produced and performed on\, Mark also won Best Blues CD and Best Traditional Blues CD at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis\, TN. Mark’s The Hustle Is Really On climbed to #2 and stayed in the top five for four months on the Living Blues Radio Charts. Hummel’s book “BIG ROAD BLUES:12 Bars on I-80″ garnered rave reviews and was nominated for best Independent Book release.  \n\n\n\nMark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Thanks to over thirty recordings since 1985\, including the Grammy nominated 2013 release Blind Pig recording Remembering Little Walter (part of the Blues Harmonica Blowout CD series). Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout™ started in 1991 and have featured every major legend (Mayall\, Musselwhite\, Cotton\, etc.) on blues harp as well as almost every player of note on the instrument – a who’s who of players. \n\n\n\nHummel is a road warrior – a true Blues Survivor. Along the way\, he has crafted his own trademark harmonica sound – a subtle combination of tone\, phrasing and attack combined with a strong sense of swing. Mark has been with Electro Fi Records since 2000\, releasing five CDs. Thanks to Mark’s earlier albums\, constant touring and appearances at the major blues festivals\, he’s firmly established his solid reputation around the US and Europe.  \n\n\n\nBorn in New Haven\, CT but raised in Los Angeles till he graduated high school. Mark moved to the Berkeley at age 18 to pursue a career in blues music\, where he felt the music was taken more seriously.  \n\n\n\nMark started the Blues Survivors in 1977 with Mississippi Johnny Waters. By 1984 Hummel began a life of non- stop touring of the US\, Canada and overseas\, which he still continues at least 130-150 days out of each year. Hummel has toured or recorded with blues legends Charles Brown\, Charlie Musselwhite\, Lowell Fulson\, Billy Boy Arnold\, Carey Bell\, Lazy Lester\, Brownie McGhee\, Eddie Taylor\, Luther Tucker and Jimmy Rogers.
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/mark-hummels-all-stars-w-anson-funderburgh-junior-watson/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paul Thorn Band at La Rosa
DESCRIPTION:ON SALE 6/25 at 10 am (code RandR gets you $5 off – expires 7/4) \n\n\n\nThe Last Rhythm and Roots Show\, celebrating 30 years of music and community.  We will miss you all and we thank you!  \n\n\n\n\n\nWhen it comes to songwriting\, less is more\, and simplicity is strength. Just ask Paul Thorn\, who’s spent three decades turning soulful grooves and small syllables into songs that pack a big wallop. Maybe he learned the power of minimalism from his years as a pro boxer; maybe it just comes naturally. But whether he’s targeting heads\, hearts\, hips or the occasional funny bone\, he somehow manages to condense large nuggets of wisdom into tight little mantras\, the kind embroiderers stitched onto pillows before internet memes existed. \n\n\n\nThorn’s new album\, Life is Just A Vapor\, contains some beauties: “Life is a vapor\, let’s live it while we can”; “tough times don’t last\, but tough people do” (from “Tough Times Don’t Last”); “any mountain up ahead is just a hill” (from “Old Melodies”). They’re words of advice\, comfort\, support\, encouragement\, often meant to uplift\, especially in times of struggle. Life Is Just A Vapor is an outspoken account of the life lessons Thorn has experienced throughout his unique and extensive career and a reflection of his six decades on this planet. Album includes guest appearances by Joe Bonamassa\, Luther Dickinson\, Bill Hinds\, New Testament\, and the Shoals Sisters. \n\n\n\n“I like for people to be touched by music and get something from it\, something that they can take with them throughout the day\,” Thorn says. “Every song on this album\, there’s a message in it of some sort about how to live life.” \n\n\n\nAmerican Blues Scene writer Don Wilcock calls Thorn “an everyman (who) addresses things we all think about\, but few can articulate with the kind of candor\, humor and folksy truth that immediately endear him to almost everyone lucky enough to hear his music.”
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/paul-thorn-band-at-la-rosa/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:RIDERS IN THE SKY
DESCRIPTION:RIDERS IN THE SKY  \n\n\n\nInstagram | Facebook | Youtube | Spotify \n\n\n\nSisters Bar & Restaurant opens at 5pm. Information and reservations here. \n\n\n\n40 years.  It seemed to go by in a blur\, pounding the road\, seeing the world\, raising babies and sending them to college\, mowing lawns\, romances\, marriages\, high school drama\, endless airports\, the nights at the Hollywood Bowl\, the night at the Red Barn in Louisville dodging various barroom projectiles\, frozen diesel lines\, blast furnace desert heat\, hours of practice\, late nights and early mornings\, and lots and lots and lots of laughter. \n\n\n\n40 years ago.  No laptops\, no cellular phones\, no Google\, no downloads\, no Skype\, no Tweets\, no Apple\, no Microsoft\, no texting\, no electric cars\, no Uber.  A different world.  But there were three young men with drive and wit who wanted to keep a special music alive.  They believed in preserving the heritage of Western Music and presenting it to a new generation.  They believed in entertaining\, and they did so… entertaining themselves as well as the audience!  And they believed in creating original Western Music to continue the tradition\, not just seal it in amber as a museum piece.  What they did not realize at the time was that they would be doing the same thing 40 years later. \n\n\n\n 40 years ago\, Ranger Doug\, Too Slim and the late Windy Bill Collins played that first date on the bitter cold evening of November 11th\, 1977 at Herr Harry’s Frank N’ Stein Rathskeller in Nashville\, and small listening room dates followed.  By August of the following year demand was building\, and while Windy Bill left\, Woody Paul joined\, and the true professional beginnings of the band began at the Kentucky State Fair\, where the trio played 10 days for $2500- and bought their own rooms and meals out of that! \n\n\n\nA first wave followed\, including appearances on Austin City Limits; recording contracts with Rounder\, then MCA\, then Columbia; guest appearances on the Grand Ole Opry leading to membership in 1982; and a three-year run on The Nashville Network with a TV show called “Tumbleweed Theater\,” which yet in turn led to a seven-year run on public radio with “Riders Radio Theater.  People Magazine\, interested in the Riders phenomenon\, ran a story which happy caught the eye of a Hollywood producer. \n\n\n\n And so the second wave broke\, sending the boys to Hollywood to star in “Riders In The Sky” on CBS for a year on Saturday mornings\, introducing them to yet another generation.  More recordings\, endless show dates\, and television appearances followed for a decade before the fine folks at Pixar called and asked the quartet – by this time they had been joined by Joey the Cowpolka King – to sing a tune called “Woody’s Roundup” in the movie “Toy Story 2.”  Thus\, the third wave began\, highlighted by a number of projects for Disney\, including two albums\, both of which won GRAMMY Awards! \n\n\n\n The creation of satellite radio has recently given them a new platform\, as they continue to produce episodes of the award winning “Classic Cowboy Corral” on Sirius/XM. \n\n\n\n Still more road dates and recordings (several on their own Riders Radio Records label) and other film and television projects have filled the days and weeks and years\, and since the quartet has slowed up very little\, the numbers begin to add up:  an astonishing 7\,200+ appearances\, 35 years on the Grand Ole Opry\, 40 records albums (well\, now CDs\,) and tours of all 50 states and all over the world.  Honors accumulated as well.  In addition to the two Grammy Awards\, Riders received numerous awards from the Western Music Association\, including the highest: membership in the Western Music Hall of Fame; numerous Wrangler awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum; awards from the Academy of Western Artists; enshrinement in the Walkway of Western Stars\, and more.  What began as a celebration of classic Western Music and an evening of hilarity has become a career\, and that career has become a legend\, one which\, 40 years on\, shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down much. \n\n\n\nRanger Doug\, Too Slim\, Woody Paul and Joey the Cowpolka King… 40 years on\, “The Cowboy Way.
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/riders-in-the-sky-2/
LOCATION:La Rosa Tucson\, 800 N Country Club Road\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85716\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steep Canyon Rangers
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration and ENCORE of the Rhythm and Roots Last Show\, celebrating 30 years of community and music.PRESENTED WITH THE FOX TUCSON THEATREON SALE THURSDAY at 10 am. PRESALE is one day only.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSteep Canyon Rangers arrive at a moment of renewal and reaffirmation with Next Act\, their 15th studio album set to be released May 22\, 2026. The record represents a conscious tightening of focus: a return to the bluegrass foundations that first bound the band together\, approached with the confidence and emotional range earned through years of collective evolution. It is an affirmation that bluegrass still contains endless expressive possibility. Next Act finds the Rangers sounding deeply at home in their own musical language\, drawing strength from tradition while continuing to write new chapters within it. \n\n\n\nFormed in North Carolina and shaped equally by the Appalachian Mountains and the Piedmont\, Steep Canyon Rangers have long occupied a singular space in American roots music. From their earliest recordings\, the band demonstrated an unusual ability to honor traditional bluegrass forms while allowing contemporary songwriting\, literary influence\, and regional storytelling to seep naturally into the music. Over time\, this balance earned them both bluegrass credibility and broader Americana acclaim\, culminating in a Best Bluegrass Album GRAMMY Award for 2013’s Nobody Knows You\, additional nominations for Rare Bird Alert (2012) and North Carolina Songbook (2020)\, and an induction into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, as their audience expanded and their songwriting reach grew wider\, the Rangers began to feel a pull back toward the elemental forces that shaped them: acoustic instruments speaking clearly\, songs built for ensemble interplay\, and stories grounded in lived experience and regional memory. Next Act emerges from that impulse. \n\n\n\nSteep Canyon Rangers is made up of Graham Sharp on banjo and vocals\, Mike Guggino on mandolin/mandola and vocals\, Aaron Burdett on guitar and vocals\, Nicky Sanders on fiddle and vocals\, Mike Ashworth on drums\, dobro\, percussion and vocals\, and Barrett Smith on bass\, guitar\, and vocals.
URL:https://rhythmandroots.org/event/steep-canyon-rangers/
LOCATION:Fox Tucson Theatre\, 17 West Congress St\, Tucson\, Arizona\, 85701
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